TikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAI

https://fortune.com/2024/10/03/bytedance-tiktok-bytespider-scraper-bot/

10 Comments

  1. Thin-Concentrate5477 on

    If it’s 25 times faster than it will match it in a couple of months, tops. Each month is equivalent to 2 years and one month of OpenAI scraping.

  2. > The Bytespider bot, much like those of OpenAI and Anthropic, does not respect robots.txt, the research shows.

    Crawlers respecting the robots.txt was always out of politeness anyway, but it’s sooo cool to see even that’s been thrown out the window at this point.

  3. That poor fucking scraper, i can only imagine the absolute exabytes of spam it must chew through.

  4. birdwatcher2022 on

    That’s what happens when rules were burned down. The most ferocious and vicious monsters are going to win. Stupid suckers…