#data scraping companies

[uniquesdata]

Emerging Trends and Innovation in Web Scraping Services

Collecting data from various sources is a headache for many organizations, especially from the vast pool of information—the Internet. To ease the task, web scraping services allow businesses to extract data from various sources efficiently and quickly. However, the emerging trends in web scraping will transform the approach with more benefits. Check which trends are going to impact web scraping services.

[zagreus]

your last reblog might have some misinfo

genuinely, thanks for caring, but can you be more specific?

because if you mean the post about nightshade and glaze being ineffective and you're referencing the "debunk" in the notes from someone who clearly doesn't understand the technology involved and only cites the devs themselves (who obviously wouldnt be advertising the many ways in which the tech they're pushing fails to perform as intended), you're just mistaken I'm afraid.

also like. i know the op of that post and trust their knowledge on the subject a lot more than some rando misusing buzzwords

[sufficientlylargen]

Can someone explain to me why the idea of Automattic selling data to Midjourney is so awful?

I get that people don't want their posts and art being used to train generative models but... they already are being used to train generative models. If you make something public on the internet, then you can't stop anyone from scraping it and add it to a training set (there's no such thing as DRM that works against a well-funded opponent), and as I understand it all the big "AI" companies are already doing this.

So it seems like Tumblr is basically telling Midjourney etc. "Hey, wouldn't you like to get this data without having to process out the noise from webscraping? We'll give you cleaner data if you A) pay us and B) don't mind that we're going to let users opt out of it."

Shouldn't this be strictly better than the alternative, which is "Midjourney etc. just keep scraping all publicly available data regardless of what users want and also Tumblr doesn't have enough money to cover its operating expenses"? What am I missing here?

[albertserra]

Like come on guys

[mountmortar]

observation-wise i do think it's interesting how enraged people were about how a giant query that returned pretty much everything ever posted (and unposted. drafts and unanswered asks and whatnot) on the site was done (which. to my knowledge. STILL doesn't have an answer regarding the question of whether or not the data included in that query was already sold) and that tumblr was going to start partnering with AI companies to train their models and then a couple of posts went around like "okie dokie guys NOW after that query was done we implemented an opt-out toggle <3 and we trust in Good Faith that the companies will respect this toggle <3" and then everyone was like Oh Okay <3 Yay <3 and suddenly everyone's fine again. 10/10 example of a collective sunk cost fallacy mentality. at this point it's kind of free entertainment to watch

[lensnure]

[thelezzer]

"why are art blogs such crybabies about AI" idk maybe the people who are most directly and materially affected by image generation models aren't going to express the most favorable and nuanced takes on the thing that's ruining their careers

[outsourcebigdata]

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[uniquesdata]

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[gontagokuhara]

i havent written all week FUCK MY JOB

[louistonehill]

A new tool lets artists add invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online so that if it’s scraped into an AI training set, it can cause the resulting model to break in chaotic and unpredictable ways. 

The tool, called Nightshade, is intended as a way to fight back against AI companies that use artists’ work to train their models without the creator’s permission. Using it to “poison” this training data could damage future iterations of image-generating AI models, such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, by rendering some of their outputs useless—dogs become cats, cars become cows, and so forth. MIT Technology Review got an exclusive preview of the research, which has been submitted for peer review at computer security conference Usenix.   

AI companies such as OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Stability AI are facing a slew of lawsuits from artists who claim that their copyrighted material and personal information was scraped without consent or compensation. Ben Zhao, a professor at the University of Chicago, who led the team that created Nightshade, says the hope is that it will help tip the power balance back from AI companies towards artists, by creating a powerful deterrent against disrespecting artists’ copyright and intellectual property. Meta, Google, Stability AI, and OpenAI did not respond to MIT Technology Review’s request for comment on how they might respond. 

Zhao’s team also developed Glaze, a tool that allows artists to “mask” their own personal style to prevent it from being scraped by AI companies. It works in a similar way to Nightshade: by changing the pixels of images in subtle ways that are invisible to the human eye but manipulate machine-learning models to interpret the image as something different from what it actually shows. 

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[ecommerceserviceprovider]

The process of gathering information from multiple sources—including websites, databases, spreadsheets, documents, text files, and more—is known as data scraping. Data integration, migration, analysis, and information retrieval are just a few of the uses for data scraping.

[globosetechnologysolution]

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[aceofwands]

does everyone freaking out about the AI deal not realise that their data has probably already been scraped years ago???

these data scrapers have already trawled through the web for years now, gobbling up everything they can to train these models in the first place

and tbh I'd be more dubious about any website or social media site claiming to protect you from this happening - how exactly are they going to do that? what's to stop these AI companies from scraping that data? (if there was an effective way to stop it, we'd be able to implement it here lol) how can they prove to you that it hasn't already happened?

like I'm just real curious where exactly people are planning to go that they think will actually be 'safe' from this happening

idk, it just feels like people are trying to stop the horse from bolting out the gate, but the horse has already been running laps around the field for ages now

like ... what you're afraid of has already happened, and all of this stuff is already so nebulous and unregulated that I don't see how freaking out about it on here is going to actually, y'know, change anything - like the only way any of this is going to stop or change is regulating the companies doing the actual data scraping

[socialmediamarketing2023]

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