alt Hacker NewsIt's more ironic because without all the scraping openai has done, there would have been no ChatGPT.
Also, it's not just the cost of the bandwidth and processing. Information has value too. Otherwise they wouldn't bother scraping it in the first place. They compete directly with the websites featuring their training data and thus they are taking away value from them just as the bots do from ChatGPT.
In fact the more I think of it, I think it's exactly the same thing.
This leads me to thinking: I ask chatGPT a question and they get the answer from gamefaqs.
But what happens if gamefaqs disappears because of lack of traffic?
Can LLM actually create or only regurgitate content.