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.

    • Touching_Grass@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      You don’t get your news from it but building tools can be useful. Scrapping news websites to measure different articles for thinga like semantic analysis or identify media tricks that manipulate readers is a fun practice. You can use llm to identify propaganda much easier. I can get why media would be scared that regular people can run these tools on their propaganda machine easily.

        • abhibeckert@lemmy.worldEnglish
          73·
          1 year ago

          Because ChatGPT doesn’t do clickbait headlines or have auto-play video ads, auto play video news that follows me if I try to scroll past it, or a house ad that tries to convince me to stop reading the news and instead read a puff piece about how to clean my water bottle. Which I’d bet fifty bucks will result in me seeing ads for new water bottles every day for the next month. No thanks.

          With the “Web Browsing” plugin, which essentially does a Bing search then summarises the result, ChatGPT is a far better experience if you want to find out what’s going on in Israel today for example.

          • Ad4mWayn3@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            Neither does lemmy, here (and in other instances) there’s plenty of communities for news, and with better control of misinformation.

          • ManOMorphos@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Reuters is pretty good. No autoplay vids, only 1-2 quiet ads an article, and is mainly cut-and-dry news.

            No news source is 100% reliable, but I can easily see AI picking up bad information or misinterpreting human text. Nothing wrong with AI news by itself, but it’s a good habit to verify any source by yourself.

            Regardless I recommend UBlock for any device or browser. Ads are over the line nowadays so I don’t feel bad blocking them when possible.