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The Data That Powers AI Is Disappearing Fast


An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: For years, the people building powerful artificial intelligence systems have used enormous troves of text, images and videos pulled from the internet to train their models. Now, that data is drying up. Over the past year, many of the most ...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: For years, the people building powerful artificial intelligence systems have used enormous troves of text, images and videos pulled from the internet to train their models. Those restrictions are set up through the Robots Exclusion Protocol, a decades-old method for website owners to prevent automated bots from crawling their pages using a file called robots.txt. companies, but for researchers, academics and noncommercial entities," said Shayne Longpre, the study's lead author, in an interview.

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Data for A.I. Training Is Disappearing Fast, Study Shows