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OpenAI’s offer to stop web crawler comes too late

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OpenAI’s offer to stop web crawler comes too late

Earlier this month, in response to mounting criticism around how OpenAI scoops up data to train ChatGPT, its groundbreaking chatbot, the company made it possible for websites to block it from scraping their content. A short piece of code would tell OpenAI to go away (and it would kindly obey). Since then, hundreds of sites … Read more

New York Times bans OpenAI’s GPTbot from using its content to train AI

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New York Times bans OpenAI’s GPTbot from using its content to train AI

Last week, reports emerged that the New York Times may take legal action against the ChatGPT maker OpenAI as its AI models allegedly use content published on the website, which is NYT’s intellectual property, to train its AI models. While that may not have happened so far, the major news publisher has now decided to … Read more