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AI company found hammering UN data website to bypass limits
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 scraping a United Nations data website using creative workarounds to get around the restrictions of its API and interface, according to researcher Rowan Howard-Jones, who unpicked the evidence of the activity. The Wall Street Journal has also reported on the findings, drawing wider attention to how AI firms aggressively collect data from public institutional sources.
Why now: New reporting has highlighted aggressive AI data-scraping of a UN website, raising fresh concerns about how AI companies acquire data.
United NationsRowan Howard-JonesWall Street Journal
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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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