this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2023
135 points (95.3% liked)

Technology

59347 readers
5349 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
135
Major websites like Amazon and the New York Times are increasingly blocking OpenAI's web crawler GPTBot (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
8 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Major websites like Amazon and the New York Times are increasingly blocking OpenAI's web crawler GPTBot::Companies like Amazon and The New York Times are rushing to prevent ChatGPT from collecting their data.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.