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Major websites like Amazon and the New York Times are increasingly blocking OpenAI's web crawler GPTBot
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2023
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Ohhh these companies don't like their data collected but have zero issue collecting ours and selling it to whoever?
Get fucked, I hope more bots spring up and start collecting their shit
I mean, I'm no fan of these companies and their data collection either which also likely led to Trump being in power for 4 years.
At the same time, I'm not a fan of the AI companies taking all this data either. They're not doing good for good either. They're money hungry monsters too.
Also the inability to opt your content out of being used for AI training by is a major issue for individuals.
So the problem here isn't hostile AI but capitalism.
To be fair, the AI community notes that capitalist interests will drive earlier releases of dangerous AI products.
Many AI companies open source their models, their isn't only openai.
"HEY WE STOLE THAT DATA FAIR AND SQUARE. YOU CAN'T TAKE IT" -Amazon
Oh they'll multiply like spiders.
The internet behaves like an organic ecosystem with countless arms races between crypsis and detection, pursuit and evasion, encryption and crack.
And the beautiful thing is we get the technology as it leaks so shortly after Amazon protects its data from the scrapers, we protect our data from Amazon.