With TikTok Ban Looming Large, Parent ByteDance's Web Scraping Bot Draws Attention For Being More Aggressive Than The One ChatGPT Uses: Report

ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, has introduced a powerful web scraper named “Bytespider.” Launched in April, Bytespider is recognized as one of the most aggressive data collectors online, outpacing other major tech firms significantly in terms of data collection speed.

What Happened: Research conducted by Kasada, a bot management company, and Dark Visitors, a group monitoring scraper bots, confirmed Bytespider’s activity. According to Kasada CEO Sam Crowther, Bytespider collects data 25 times faster than GPTbot, utilized by OpenAI for ChatGPT, and 3,000 times faster than ClaudeBot from Anthropic, Fortune reported on Friday.

Despite the looming threat of a U.S. ban on TikTok, ByteDance continues its aggressive data collection strategy. President Joe Biden has demanded the sale or shutdown ...

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