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TikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAI

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TikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAI

[email protected]English • 3 months ago

TikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that's gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAI

The crawler, dubbed Bytespider, is scraping the internet at 3,000 times the rate of other genAI tools like Anthropic.

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My god… It’s true. TikTok does access the home wifi network! https://youtu.be/OSQ76ZrHmd4

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  Funnily enough, the bot everyone identified as tik tok hasn’t hit me as far as I’m aware. It’s mostly been random LLM bots grabbing data to train.

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