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Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium OpenAI launches web crawling GPTBot, sparking blocking effort by website owners and creators - VentureBeat    Without fanfare or an official announcement, ChatGPT maker OpenAI launched a new website crawling bot this week for scanning website content to train its large language models (LLMs). But after news of the bot broke, a revolt ensued, as website owners and creators quickly traded tips on how to block GPTBot from scraping their sites’ data. When OpenAI added the GPTBot support page, it also introduced a way to block the service from scraping your website. A small modification to a website’s robots.txt file would stop the content from being shared with OpenAI. However, due to how extensively the web is scraped otherwise, it’s unclear if simply blocking GPTBot will completely stop content from being included in LLM training data. “We periodically collect public data from the internet which may be used to improve the capabilities, accuracy, and safety of future models,” an OpenAI spokesperson said in an email. “On our website, we provide instructions on how to disallow our collection bot from accessing a site. Web pages are filtered to remove sources that have paywalls, are known to gather personally identifiable information (PII), or have text that violates our policies.” Continued here You Might Like � � � � � � � � � The nuclear fusion era has arrived, if we choose it - Big Think    Last year, on December 5, 2022, an incredible milestone was achieved: for the first time, a nuclear fusion reaction experienced what’s known as a net energy gain. This means, remarkably, that the energy liberated from a nuclear fusion reaction exceeded the (useful) energy that was inputted into the reaction. This wasn’t achieved by a magnetic confinement fusion reactor, which is where most of the worldwide fusion funding is centered, nor by any among the hundreds of private laboratories dedicated to bringing commercial fusion to the public, but rather by a largely forgotten source: the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. This year, on July 30, 2023, the National Ignition Facility did it again, and in an even superior fashion: repeating their results and achieving an even higher energy yield than in the December prior. All of this was achieved despite a paltry amount of funding being directed toward nuclear fusion research by the U.S. government: an average of just half-a-billion dollars per year across all endeavors, combined. With this recent confirmation, the path toward developing widespread nuclear fusion as the anchor to a clean, carbon-neutral energy economy is now clearer than ever. But in order to truly achieve it, we not only need to be brave and bold, but also focused, as the distractions and pitfalls could truly divert us from the ultimate goal. Let’s not mince words about this: the ultimate goal is to create virtually unlimited amounts of energy via the process of nuclear fusion, enabling humanity’s transition to a clean-energy economy. This would be an economy free from: Continued here Rewiring social media: How to make platforms better for everyone | MIT Sloan - MIT Sloan    Social media has changed the global information landscape while ushering in new concerns about misinformation, hate speech, phone addiction, and privacy violations. Given all this and more, social media's circuits need wiring, according to experts who spoke at the 2023 Social Media Summit@MIT, hosted by the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. "Large platforms have gone private, policy changes are underway at Twitter [now called X] … and now generative AI and deep learning — in development for many decades — have burst onto the scene for public use," said IDE director Sinan Aral, a professor of information technology and marketing at MIT Sloan. "These changes have an immense impact on text, images, video, and synthetic generation of information that influences how we think about our world." Continued here

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