In the same way that companies like Facebook’s habit of scraping news from news websites helped drive traditional news organizations out of business, leaving Facebook with little original news to send out to its users, A.I. models are scraping websites for content, which will deny them the traffic they need to survive. Then, what will A.I. do?
Scraping the Bottom
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The TMI Show" talk show. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Facebook scraping “news (imperial propaganda sources until proven otherwise) websites” to their, and its own, detriment is delicious news, in itself, but pales in comparison to the AI tera- >peta- >exa- data centers*** and cryptocurrency mining operations massively “scraping” the world’s claimed “endless” energy sources and, of course, thereby significantly increasing CO2 emissions.
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*** in addition to, or in conjunction with, the wild expansion of “all surveillance, all the time” data centers