Most Top News Sites Block AI Bots. Right-Wing Media Welcomes Them

WIRED reports that AI chatbots may acquire a right-wing bias – simply because they’re banned from any left-leaning news websites:

Data collected in mid-January on 44 top news sites by Ontario-based AI detection startup Originality AI shows that almost all of them block AI web crawlers, including newspapers like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian, general-interest magazines like The Atlantic, and special-interest sites like Bleacher Report. OpenAI’s GPTBot is the most widely-blocked crawler. But none of the top right-wing news outlets surveyed, including Fox News, the Daily Caller, and Breitbart, block any of the most prominent AI web scrapers, which also include Google’s AI data collection bot. Pundit Bari Weiss’ new website The Free Press also does not block AI scraping bots.

For an AI chatbot, you are what you train on. Train on right wing, generate right wing.

Read the article here.

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