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Fearing ‘pillaging’, news outlets block an OpenAI bot
31Aug By adminNo Comments
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Fearing ‘pillaging’, news outlets block an OpenAI bot

[ad_1] A growing number of media outlets are blocking a webpage-scanning tool used by ChatGPT creator OpenAI to improve its artificial intelligence models. The New York Times, CNN, Australian broadcaster ABC and news agencies Reuters and Bloomberg have taken steps to thwart GPTBot, a web crawler launched on August 8. They were followed by French news organisations including France 24, RFI, Mediapart, Radio France and TF1. "There's one thing that won't stand: it's the unauthorised pillaging of content," Radio France president Sibyle Veil said at a news conference on Monday. Nearly 10 percent of the top 1,000 websites in the world blocked access to GPTBot just two weeks after it was launched, according to plagiarism tracker Originality.ai. They include Amazon.com, Wikihow.com, Quora.com...
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New York Times bans OpenAI’s GPTbot from using its content to train AI
22Aug By adminNo Comments
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New York Times bans OpenAI’s GPTbot from using its content to train AI

[ad_1] 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 ban OpenAI's web crawler from viewing content on its website. The move means that the website's content cannot be used to train any of OpenAI's AI foundational models.As per a report by The Verge, NYT has blocked OpenAI's web crawler GPTbot from searching and indexing the contents of the website. The report highlights the robot.txt page of the publication which clearly shows that the bot has been disallowed. Using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine that lets users...
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