Dell Cameron

@dell.bsky.social

WIRED caught an AI company scraping its articles w/o permission. Turns out, Amazon was hosting the machine doing the scraping, even though that violates Amazon's terms of service.

Oh! And the AI company is funded by Jeff Bezos.

wired.com/story/aws-perplexity-bot-scraping-investigation/

Jun 27, 2024 at 22:59 UTC

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Matt Ferrel 🍦 @mattferrel.bsky.social
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TasiAF @tasiaf.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 23:44 UTC

here is my shocked face😐

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melomys @melomys.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 00:33 UTC

AWS will probably change its terms of service to allow this.

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@clggmf.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 01:02 UTC

It's okay because it's for the greater good. Or, in this case, the greater mediocre.

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ZHUGE LIANG @shuchancellor.online
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 00:46 UTC

i wish amazon a very happy getting sued

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WerewolfLord @werewolflord.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 00:39 UTC

"WIRED found the company had access to a server using an unpublished IP address—44.221.181.252" Has anyone told Barbra Streisand about this *unpublished* IP address?

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Andi @andil.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 00:49 UTC

Why wasn’t it scraping the Washington Post? 🤔

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 23:23 UTC

Let me get this straight first they said it was very complicated for your pretty little heads, and then they said it’s OK to crawl the website because “if the user gives you the website or part of it in a query that’s just like as if a human did it so we can ignore robots.txt” do I have this right?

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motorcruft @motorcruft.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 23:56 UTC

I’m honestly impressed that robots.txt was respected for so long, but it’s irreversibly dead now.

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Symbo1ics @symbo1ics.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 23:25 UTC

Guess what's about to change

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Dell Cameron @dell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 23:09 UTC

ICYMI: www.wired.com/story/perple...

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 23:44 UTC

Wow. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 23:34 UTC

The Washington Post has a new exec who will tell the team to aggressively cover this story...

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lydy @foo7.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 23:15 UTC

this seems like a big deal?

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Fluff Society😾 @debeauvoir.me
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 23:41 UTC

lawsuit time :D

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CEO Nwabudike Morgan @fibonacci.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 23:55 UTC

The immediate response should be for Wired to host articles that only the scraper will pick up that detail how and why Amazon workers should unionize in response to popular queries on Perplexity's service.

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