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Luu Tuyen@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 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@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 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.
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    They’re not pirating it. They’re collecting it.

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

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        Oh, like the way back machine?

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          No, that’s stealing /s

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

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

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