BBC Will Block ChatGPT AI From Scraping Its Content
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The BBC has blocked the artificial intelligence software behind ChatGPT from accessing or using its content. The move aligns the BBC with Reuters, Getty Images and other content providers that have…

BBC will block ChatGPT AI from scraping its content::ChatGPT will be blocked by the BBC from scraping content in a move to protect copyrighted material.

  • @ChreutzEnglish
    10•1 year ago

    It’s not one AI doing it in a big blob.

    You ask ChatGPT something. It builds a web query. Another program returns search results. Then ChatGPT parses the list of results and chooses one to visit. The same program then returns the content of that page. Then ChatGPT parses that etc etc.

    If the program (which is not an AI) that handles the queries and returns content is set to respect robots.txt, it will just not return the content to ChatGPT to be parsed.

    • NatanaelEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Yup, it’s essentially running behind a firewall