Sophie Bushwick: To train a large artificial intelligence model, you need lots of text and images created by actual humans. As the AI boom continues, it's becoming clearer that some of this data is ...

Artificial intelligence tech companies are refusing to abide by internet protocol when it comes to scraping data. Their ravenous scavenging behavior is upending the basic rules of the internet. On ...

The Internet is a vast ocean of human knowledge, but it isn’t infinite. And artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have nearly sucked it dry. The past decade of explosive improvement in AI has been ...

Berners-Lee cautioned that generative A.I. threatens the foundation of today’s web economy. SXSW Conference & Festivals via We have Tim Berners-Lee to thank for the World Wide Web. But these days, the ...

A lengthy stack of issues and macro trends is shaping the technology industry today, and high on the list is the prospect that the internet engine powering an estimated $16 trillion to $21 trillion ...

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When ChatGPT started the generative AI craze in November 2022, some users were frustrated that the knowledge cutoff date for its backing large language model (LLM) was September 2021. For a while it ...

Content owners are wising up to their work being freely used by Big Tech to build new AI tools. Bots like Common Crawl are scraping and storing billions of pages of content for AI training. With less ...

The internet’s steady fall into the AI-garbled dumpster continues. As Vice reports, a recent study conducted by researchers at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) AI Lab found that a “shocking amount of the ...