TIKTOK PARENT COMPANY BYTEDANCE HAS A TOOL THAT'S SCRAPING THE WEB 25 TIMES FASTER THAN OPENAI

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ByteDance is aggressively using its web crawler, Bytespider, to amass data, potentially for developing its own LLM. Bytespider's data consumption rate is significantly higher than its competitors, including OpenAI and Anthropic. The purpose of the collected data remains unclear, but TikTok has been integrating AI-powered features like AI-generated ads and avatars.