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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

TikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAI

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TikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAI

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

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TikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that's gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAI

The crawler, dubbed Bytespider, is scraping the internet at 3,000 times the rate of other genAI tools like Anthropic.

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crawling other people’s content for the purpose of making money off it (in a way that does not benefit the content creator).

You’re describing capitalism there, bud

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