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ByteDance sacks intern for sabotaging AI project

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198 points beedeebeedee | 1 comments | 21 Oct 24 03:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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kazinator ◴[21 Oct 24 20:13 UTC] No.41908045[source]▶
OTOH: ByteDance intern responsible for spamming your web server with crawlers that ignore robots.txt given permanent position with a raise, now in management.
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123yawaworht456 ◴[22 Oct 24 00:32 UTC] No.41910007[source]▶
honoring robots.txt is an informal courtesy, not international law.
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davemp ◴[22 Oct 24 02:34 UTC] No.41910655[source]▶
Not breaking the law is just about the lowest bar you can set for an organization.
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1. hnfong ◴[22 Oct 24 14:08 UTC] No.41914451[source]▶
FYI, we're still not sure whether the scraped AI training datasets involve copyright infringement.