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TikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAI (fortune.com)

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance

Mostly what they have said and done, but also largely what they intend to continue saying and doing.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can you distill it down for me?

[+] [email protected] -23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's the same old Yankee speech: "is chinese so must be really bad". They're definitely no worse than google or facebook.

[–] Imgonnatrythis 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They come from an environment where the government actively encourages and sometimes funds stealing copyrighted information couched in a strong history of disregard for human rights. I'm not defending Google, and yes the US government has given them leeway, but if there is the potential for something worse than Google - Bytedance is it.