It seems like there's a new reason to be frustrated at AI almost every day, a reason that bubbles up through the primordial soup of festering unconsciousness and into the light of anger. There's the effect on the economy, job thievery,that lifeless neural networks should be able to convince anyone they're conscious. And now, there's another reason to be mad at the ethereal AI buggers: they're clogging up server bandwidth without permission.
Assuming Wiens isn't massively exaggerating, it's no surprise that this is"typing up our devops resources." A million"hits" per day would do it, and would certainly be enough to justify more than a little annoyance. This is, as Wiens points out, something that could be seen if one simply accessed the terms of service. This makes me wonder whether at least some AI companies might rather ask for forgiveness than permission, and therefore not bother checking the ToS in the first place.Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.
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