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Luu Tuyen to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 8 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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Luu Tuyen to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 8 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
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The crawler, dubbed Bytespider, is scraping the internet at 3,000 times the rate of other genAI tools like Anthropic.
  • Chozo
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    53•8 months ago

    They’re not stealing your data, they’re pirating it.

    • Guy Dudeman
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      33•8 months ago

      They’re not pirating it. They’re collecting it.

      • @ieatpwns@lemmy.world
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        23•8 months ago

        They’re not collecting it. They’re archiving it.

        • Guy Dudeman
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          14•8 months ago

          Oh, like the way back machine?

          • @Evotech@lemmy.world
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            34•8 months ago

            No, that’s stealing /s

            • @AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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              8•8 months ago

              Is the problem that wayback machine isn’t profiting from it?

              • @_stranger_@lemmy.world
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                9•8 months ago

                It’s not so much the lack of profits, more like the lack of kickbacks.

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