Should you opt out of the AI data grab?

Should you opt out of the AI data grab?
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Peter Griffin
ChatGPT’s founder OpenAI this week made it easier to block the tool it uses to harvest data from around the web to train its proprietary artificial intelligence models. That huge trove of data is integral to the success of OpenAI’s intelligent chatbot, but artificial intelligence (AI) companies are facing a growing backlash from website owners unhappy at their data being sucked up en masse. Few website owners object to Google crawling their sites as they want more people to discover their content, and the key to that is be...

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