#AI #GenerativeAI #AITraining #CyberSecurity #Botnets #WebScraping: "In the race to build the world's most advanced AI, tech companies have fanned out across the web, releasing botnets like a plague of digital locusts to scour sites for anything they can use to fuel their voracious models.

It's often high quality training data they're after, but also other information that may help AI models understand the world. The race is on to collect as much information as possible before it runs out, or the rules change on what's acceptable.

One study estimated that the world's supply of usable AI training data could be depleted by 2032. The entire online corpus of recorded human experience may soon be inadequate to keep ChatGPT up to date.

A resource like the Game UI Database, where a human has already done the painstaking labor of cleaning and categorizing images, must have looked like an all-you-can-eat-buffet.

For small website owners with limited resources, the costs of playing host to swarm of hungry bots can present a significant burden."

https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-anthropic-ai-bots-havoc-raise-cloud-costs-websites-2024-9