Reddit files a lawsuit against Perplexity and three data scraping companies, accusing them of illegally stealing its data by scraping Google search results
comparing them to “bank robbers” and accusing them of sidestepping its controls to scrape its data and get rich off the AI gravy train. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... Andrew Curran / @andrewcurr...
Some popular sites like Condé Nast's titles and Reuters.com modified robots.txt to block Anthropic's bots, but Anthropic has just made new bots with other names
We really are going to need a shared blocklist that doesn't rely on putting your website behind Cloudflare. — https://www.404media.co/... Jason Koebler / @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social : Many website...
In response to plagiarism allegations, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says the company “is not ignoring” robots.txt, but does rely on third-party web crawlers
* what we do is highly technical, you don't understand — * it wasn't us it was a third party service/contractor/vendor — https://www.fastcompany.com/ ... @bsmall2@mstdn.jp : Automated Plagiarism f...
A look at the decline of Quora, which used to stand out as an accuracy-focused, knowledge-centric platform but is now filled with bizarre, AI-generated entries
This raised the issue of consent and ownership, as Quorans had to decide whether to consent to the new terms or take their work and flee. Mastodon: @glenngabe@mas.to , @waxy@xoxo.zone , @juergen_huber...
Google dropped the cache link from Search results snippets last week and plans to remove the cache functionality entirely “in the near future”
but they may eventually return in a new form Ashwin / Ghacks : Google confirms that cache links have been removed from search results Mastodon: Misty / @misty@digipres.club : Google's getting rid of t...
A look at the proliferation of fake LinkedIn profiles; LinkedIn's transparency report says the company blocked 58M+ accounts in H2 2022, up from 22M in H1
https://www.ft.com/... Tweets: Glenn Gabe / @glenngabe : 58M... That's it? ;) -> A look at fake LinkedIn profiles; LinkedIn's transparency report says it blocked 58M+ accounts in H2 2022, up from 22M ...
A WSJ columnist used Synthesia, ElevenLabs, and ChatGPT to create an AI video clone that could trick her bank's voice biometric system, make a TikTok, and more
This is a perfect example in the difference between proper #ai technology … Tweets: @yogapantschik : Well this is just fabulous! India, Philippines & Nigeria may actually convince me to extend my car'...
A WSJ columnist used Synthesia, ElevenLabs, and ChatGPT to create an AI clone that could trick her bank's voice biometric system, make a TikTok, and more
This is a perfect example in the difference between proper #ai technology … Jay Meier : Voice biometrics has never really been shown to be terribly effective. I know banks have used it and claimed it...
Financial influencers are pumping out videos promoting dubious ChatGPT get-rich-quick schemes, such as selling chatbot-generated tutorials on sites like Udemy
The world of financial influencers promise viewers they can use ChatGPT to make big bucks with no effort. Tweets: @om , @lilyraynyc , @glenngabe , @jjcastillovr , @marwasf , and @trungtphan Tweets: @o...
At a recent all-hands, Google AI Chief Jeff Dean said the company is moving “more conservatively than a small startup” on AI chatbots due to reputational risk
Is ChatGPT going to disrupt Google? I invite you to participate in a poll on this here. Tweets: Dr. Marie Haynes / @marie_haynes : Here's why Google does not have plans to compete with ChatGPT. “The ...