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Re: Anyone got a contact at OpenAI. They have a spider problem

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Might one day come looking for who lobotomized it?

And? What are they gonna do about it (apart from making such a person/website momentarily famous).

Have you not heard of Roko's Basilisk?

Re: Anyone got a contact at OpenAI. They have a spider problem

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So it served its purpose by trapping the OpenAI spider? If so, why post that message? As a flex?

It's a honeypot. He's telling people openai doesn't respect robots.txt and just scrapes whatever the hell it wants.

Except the first thing openai does is read robots.txt.

However, robots.txt doesn't cover multiple domains, and every link that's being crawled is to a new domain, which requires a new read of a robots .txt on the new domain.

Re: Anyone got a contact at OpenAI. They have a spider problem

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So it served its purpose by trapping the OpenAI spider? If so, why post that message? As a flex?

It's a honeypot. He's telling people openai doesn't respect robots.txt and just scrapes whatever the hell it wants.

It seems to respect it as the majority of the requests are for the robots.txt.

Re: Anyone got a contact at OpenAI. They have a spider problem

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Yup, that's my impression as well. He's just nice to let OpenAI they have a problem. Usually this should be rewarded with a nice "hey, u guys have a bug" bounty because not long time ago some VP from OpenAI was lamenting that training their AI is, and it's his direct quote, "eye watering" cost (the order was millions of $$ per second).

I would be a little sceptical about that figure. 3 million dollars per second is around the world GDP. I get it, AI training is expensive, but I don't believe it's that expensive

Thank you for that perspective. I always appreciate it when people put numbers like these in context.

Also 1 million per second is 60 million per minute is 3.6 billion per hour is 86.4 billion per day. It's about one whole value of FAANG per month...

Re: Anyone got a contact at OpenAI. They have a spider problem

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It's a honeypot. He's telling people openai doesn't respect robots.txt and just scrapes whatever the hell it wants.

Except the first thing openai does is read robots.txt. However, robots.txt doesn't cover multiple domains, and every link that's being crawled is to a new domain, which requires a new read of a robots .txt on the new domain.

Did we just figure out a DoS attack for AGI training? How large can a robots.txt file be?
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