Hacker News with Generative AI: ByteDance

ByteDance’s Bytespider is scraping at much higher rates than other platforms (fortune.com)
ByteDance looks like it’s eager to make up for lost time when it comes to scraping the web for data needed to train its generative AI models.
AI, Web Scraping, Data, ByteDance, Generative AI
141 points by wmstack 45 days ago | 93 comments
ByteDance is abusing the free video downloading service Cobalt for mass scraping (twitter.com)
ByteDance, Social Media, Data Scraping, Privacy, Ethics
138 points by jsheard 46 days ago | 56 comments
Apple Pressures Tencent and ByteDance over App Fees in China (bloomberg.com)
Apple, Tencent, ByteDance, China, Business
5 points by cglong 111 days ago | 1 comments
ByteDance’s web of apps could get tangled up in TikTok ban (axios.com)
ByteDance, TikTok, Social Media, China, International Relations
57 points by namanyayg 206 days ago | 104 comments
ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say (reuters.com)
ByteDance, TikTok, US Government, Legal Issues, Social Media
56 points by tithe 210 days ago | 68 comments