AI companies shift the blame for data collection from them to you
Recent moves by OpenAI and Zoom shift the blame of data collection from themselves to you. The same thing happened with the blame for car accidents 100 years ago.
OpenAI today said its new web crawler, called GPTBot, can now be blocked using the old robots.txt file standard or by blocking its IP address. If website owners choose to use one of these methods, OpenAI won’t extract data from your site and bake it into ChatGPT.
Meanwhile, video conferencing giant Zoom quietly changed its Terms of Service in March sayi…
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