Nitasha TikuApr 19, 2023
Tech companies have gotten increasingly secretive about the data, scraped from the internet without compensation or consent, used to train their AI models. So we looked closer. Here's our analysis of the 15 million websites in just one highly-filtered CommonCrawl web scrape-used to train models like Google's T5 & Facebook's LLaMA.
We found
-the copyright symbol appears >200M times
-pirated sites, 1 for e-books
-half of the top 10 were news sites https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning
See the websites that make AI bots like ChatGPT sound so smart

An analysis of a chatbot data set by The Washington Post reveals the proprietary, personal, and often offensive websites that go into an AI’s training data.

The Washington Post
Show threadGabriel Pettier
@nitashatiku i don't have them handy, but that makes me want to prompt "copyright AFP" or something like it to various AI image generators.
Apr 19, 2023 at 3:00pmWeb