Fearing ‘pillaging’, news outlets block an OpenAI bot
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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...