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AI Company Found Bypassing Limits on UN Data Website
Original: An AI company was hammering a UN data website with creative ways to get around the limitations of its API and interface.
An artificial intelligence company has been making heavy, repeated requests to a United Nations data website, using creative workarounds to get around the restrictions of its API and interface. Researcher Rowan Howard-Jones unpicked the evidence, which was first published some time ago, and the Wall Street Journal has since reported on the findings. The case highlights growing friction between AI firms hungry for training data and the organisations that host public datasets.
Why now: Fresh scrutiny from a researcher and mainstream coverage have renewed attention on AI companies' aggressive data collection practices
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- An AI company was hammering a UN data website with creative ways to get around the limitations of its API and interface. The original clues were published a while back, but researcher Rowan Howard-Jones unpicked the evidence. The WSJ tries its best to explain: https://… · benparker@newsmast.social · 4
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