Meta has 2 new sneaky bots scooping up free AI-training data from the web.
Summary:
– Generative AI tools are based on models that use huge amounts of content scraped from the web.
– Meta has trained several versions of its Llama AI models, which rely heavily on internet content.
– The company recently rolled out new bots that crawl the web and suck up data.
Meta recently unleashed new bots that crawl the web and suck up data for its AI models and related products.
These bots have features that make it harder for website owners to block their content from being scraped and collected.
The company says the Meta-ExternalAgent bot is “for use cases such as training AI models or improving products by indexing content directly.”
A second one, called Meta-ExternalFetcher, is related to the company’s AI-assistant offerings and collects links to support specific product functions.
These bots first appeared in July, according to archived Meta webpages analyzed by Originality.ai, a startup that specializes in spotting AI content.
