TikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that's gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAI
fortune.com
The crawler, dubbed Bytespider, is scraping the internet at 3,000 times the rate of other genAI tools like Anthropic.
  • Guy DudemanEnglish
    330·
    9 days ago

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

    • ieatpwnsEnglish
      230·
      9 days ago

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

        • EvotechEnglish
          340·
          9 days ago

          No, that’s stealing /s

          • AbidanYreEnglish
            80·
            9 days ago

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

            • _stranger_English
              90·
              9 days ago

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