Thanks to Angelo Aimar for collaborating on this
article
With use of generative AI models growing,
content owners affected by scraping—the practice by which
data is collected to train software—are taking action to
restrict access for programming platforms.
Artificial intelligence generative software
such as Midjourney, Dall-E, and ChatGPT makes wide-ranging use of
content "caught" online. This practice is known as
scraping. While until recently few were familiar with the term, it
now frequently appears in discussions of training of AI models. On
Reddit, users post 41 comments per second; on Spotify, artists and
labels upload 46 music tracks per second; and in the same
timeframe, 1,100 images are shared on Instagram. According to some
estimates, data in the possession of the Big Four (Google, Meta,
Amazon, and Microsoft) amounts to approximately 1,200 petabytes
(i.e., 1.2 million terabytes).
