Botnet Part 2: The Web is Broken
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I guess you have all heard about the growing problem of AI companies trying to aggressively collect whatever data they can get their hands on to train their models. This has caused an explosive surge in web crawlers relentlessly hitting servers big and small. But who runs these crawlers? Turns out — it could be you!
  • Viri4thus@feddit.orgEnglish
    81·
    6 个月前

    I couldn’t read past the bio, gave me Linkedin PTSD and my confidence levels cratered. That’s the IT equivalent of fake quotes with abstract art backgrounds on facebook, it immediately disqualifies the author.

  • lacaio 🇧🇷🏴‍☠️🇸🇴@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
    4·
    6 个月前

    Crawling the web is an important right for access of information. I think big crawlers shouldn’t dominate the market. Especially since Google isn’t up to par to find anything that is wanted anymore.