Luu Tuyen@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 29 days 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

Luu Tuyen@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 29 days ago

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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this is neither archiving, nor ratelimited, if the AI training purpose and the 25 times faster scraping than a large company did not make it obvious

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