Stuff blocks TikTok owner from 'scraping' stories

Stuff blocks TikTok owner from 'scraping' stories
Stuff and other publishers are moving to stop AI developers from exploiting their news to train chatbots. (Image: Depositphotos)
Daniel Dunkley
Stuff has moved to prevent the Chinese owner of TikTok from scraping its content to train its artificial intelligence chatbot. It comes after a host of overseas news groups accused Beijing-based tech giant ByteDance of using news stories without permission to develop its competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT.The Chinese firm says its bot, Bytespider, has been deployed for routine search engine optimisation purposes, but publishers, including the UK’s Guardian and Daily Mail, have raised the alarm over their stories being used to feed th...

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