weirdmustard

weirdmustard, 12 days ago to random

Jumping spiders are quite possibly the most adorable animal on the planet and they deserve to be way bigger to be able to jump meters high when startled

weirdmustard, 1 month ago to random

It seems like OpenAI is stealing content and training their LLM on it, even if you actively tell their spiders to not do that.

To understand what's going on here, know these things: OpenAI is the company that makes ChatGPT A spider is a kind of bot that autonomously crawls the web and sucks up web pages robots.txt is a standard text file that most web sites use to inform spiders whether or not they have permission to crawl the site; basically a No Trespassing sign for robots OpenAI's spider is ignoring robots.txt (very rude!) the web.sp.am site is a research honeypot created to trap ill-behaved spiders, consisting of billions of nonsense garbage pages that look like real content to a dumb robot OpenAI is training its newest ChatGPT model using this incredibly lame content, having consumed over 3 million pages and counting... It's absurd and horrifying at the same time.