Graph showing a the number of websites blocking AI bots.

Evolution of AI Bot Blocking on News Websites

The training of Large Language Models and their subsequent use in AI chatbots require access to vast amounts of data, often scraped from various online sources, including news websites. This data is crucial for the bots to understand and generate human-like text. However, this practice of data scraping seems to have raised concerns among news websites. AI systems like ChatGPT can be seen as potential competitors in the news business. When chatbots are asked about current events, they can generate answers that rely on data from news websites....

April 6, 2024 · Peter Krantz

Christmas carols and death metal lyrics in Tensorflow

After the previous experiment with a character based recurrent neural network (RNN) for romantic novel titles I wanted to find more details about word level RNN:s. I was happy to find that Sung Kim has made it easy to explore word-level RNN:s with Tensorflow in this repository. Training text is 50/50 Christmas carols and death metal lyrics. Output examples below. (added line breaks and bolded lines that seemed like reasonable song names :-)....

December 23, 2017 · Peter Krantz