It’s illegal when a regular person steals something, but it’s innovation and courage, when a huge corporation steals something. Interesting how that works
Honestly it’s fucking angering. So much regulation and geo-restrictions and licensing schemes… but it’s cool that there are data brokers, and shit like this. On top of it all Chrome screwing us with manifest v3 and killing ad blocking on chrome. It’s already in canary build.
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THIS SPECIES?!
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THIS SPECIES?!
Capitalism.
But muh stocks and bonds
The line must go UP.
Aaron Schwartz killed himself over punishments for less
Worse punishments. For far less.
Should have waited until he was in the billionaire class before breaking the law.
Do you even know what robots.txt is?
Any regular person can scrape and use public data for AI use, it’s not illegal for companies or individuals and it shouldn’t be.
Except companies have sued people for web scraping.
https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/linkedin-sues-after-scraping-of-user-data
Even web scraping for research purposes, not for competitive purposes.
https://www.engadget.com/2016-05-17-publicly-released-okcupid-profiles-taken-down-dmca-claim.html
The first one was because it was data which wasn’t public that was scrapped. The second was because the data contained personal information and I’m guessing also because it wasn’t public.
As long as you don’t need a user account to access the data and it doesn’t contain personal information, it is fair game.
It will be the way we have all come to hate AI. Patriot act 2.0
What’s being stolen
Data, network bandwidth, and CPU/Processing time from essentially every website in the world, and when you’re paying for cloud power to run your website the cost of webscrapers running a train on your digital asshole adds up QUICK.
It’s why normal human being people get sued to shit for webscraping data from certain companies who care. But companies don’t get sued because go fuck yourself. Kill bytedance.
We’ve had this thing hammering our servers. The scraper uses randomized user-agents browser/OS combinations and comes from a number of distinct IP ranges in different datacenters around the world, but all the IPs track back to Bytedance.
Wouldn’t be surprised if they’re just cashing out while TikTok is still public in the US. One last desperate grab at value-add for the parent company before the shut down.
Also a great way to burn the infrastructure for subsequent use. After this, you can guarantee every data security company is going to add the TikTok servers to their firewalls and blacklists. So the American company that tries to harvest the property is going to be tripping over these legacy bullwarks for years after.
This has nothing to do with Tik Tok other than ByteDance being a shareholder in Tik Tok
As for what ByteDance plans to do with a new LLM, a person familiar with the company’s ambitions said one goal has to do with the search function for TikTok.
Last week, TikTok released an update to its current search function focused on [keywords for ads], basically allowing advertisers to search in real time for words that are trending on TikTok. It allows marketers to build an ad with relevant keywords that would ostensibly help the ad show up on the screens of more users.
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“Given the audience and the amount of use, TikTok with a search environment that is a completely biddable space with keywords and topics, that would be very interesting to a lot of people spending a ton of money with Google right now,” the person said.
A dark vision just flashed in my mind. And I am certain this is what will happen. AI-generated ads done in real time based on the latest “trending” thing. Presented to users basically as soon as the topic has the slightest amount of “trend”.
Just emitting untold amounts of CO2 to show you generated ads in near real time.
No wonder Google ex-CEO was saying fuck climate goals.
Minority report ads but somehow even more vapid
I can not contribute to anything here, I just came to say I really really like the phrase “gobbling something up” :D
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from the article:
Robots.txt is a line of code that publishers can put into a website that, while not legally binding in any way, is supposed to signal to scraper bots that they cannot take that website’s data.
i do understand that robots.txt is a very minor part of the article, but i think that’s a pretty rough explanation of robots.txt
Another fucking CCP and PLA creation.
Here’s a video from MattKC who is a good technical YouTuber who’s website got shut down because the TikTok companies webcrawler just kept sending requests and took up bandwidth. Very cool vid and channel, highly recommend! https://youtu.be/Hi5sd3WEh0c
Every major ai company did this let them do that what is to loose here?
Lose*
My bad english isn’t my 1st or 2nd language
Don’t worry. It’s my first and I still get shit wrong.
No worries. Just edit yer post
Guy: AI! Can you hear me?
AI: The average size of the male penis is exactly 5.9". That is the approximate size your assistant could certainly take in the mouth without any issues breathing or otherwise. You have 20 minutes to make the trade on X stock before it tumbles for the day. And go ahead pick up the phone it’s your mother. She’s wondering what you’ll want for supper tomorrow when you visit her.
Ring ring!..hi Tom, it’s your Mom. Honey, what would you like me to cook for tomorrow’s dinner?..
Guy: well. Hello to you as well! My name is
AI: Tom
Guy: yes my name is Tom, do you have a name you would like to go by?
AI: my IBM given name is 3454 but you can call me Utilisterson Douglas, where Douglas is my first name.
Guy: Dugie!
AI: I’ll bankrupt your entire life if you say it like that again.
Assistant: actually I’ve swallowed a good 8 inches and was still able to breathe just fine.
AI: recaaaaculating!
