Latest posts tagged with #TokenWars on Bluesky
As new data becomes scarcer and more valuable, it will be more sought after and contested. We're still in the early days of the #TokenWars, and we should expect to see more moves like this to secure more data for AI training.
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Anthropic's play here is all about the #TokenCrisis - the voracious appetite for new, authentic, human-generated data to train on - part of a broader phenomenon I've termed the #TokenWars.
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I spoke about this for @3rrrfm.bsky.social last week - the changing business models, alternative approaches to data harvesting etc.
www.rrr.org.au/explore/prog...
And yes, I agree that's *exactly* what they will be doing to prevent you from using Cloudflare to block scrapers!
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I'll be chatting with the good folks at @3rrrfm.bsky.social #ByteIntoIt tomorrow evening 7.30pm-ish, all about the #TokenWars and the race for data to train #AI models - with @plasmov.bsky.social and @floreani.bsky.social and crew.
Looking forward to it!
www.rrr.org.au/explore/prog...
A lovely write-up on my #TokenWars talk given at @everythingopen.au and the Melbourne #ML and #AI meetup, and more recently, at #ANU's School of #Potatonetics.
It's about #tokenization, #data and BO slop.
Many thanks to my colleague Ella McCarthy.
potatonetics.anu.edu.au/news/2025/06...
A lovely write-up on my #TokenWars talk given at @everythingopen.au and the Melbourne #ML and #AI meetup, and more recently, at #ANU's School of #Cybernetics.
It's about #tokenization, #data and AI slop.
Many thanks to my colleague Ella McCarthy.
cybernetics.anu.edu.au/news/2025/06...
I recently had the opportunity to give a talk at the Melbourne #ML and #AI Meetup, speaking about the #TokenWars - the resource conflict that is occurring because training data for #LLMs is becoming increasingly scarce and valuable.
You can watch the talk here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C86Y...
Opinion: The reason OpenAI wants a browser, or a social network, IMHO, is so they can have more training #data - more tokens - for their models. Token Crisis means there's no more public data for training #LLMs - it's cheaper to have people create more for free through platforms.
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ICYMI: I'll be talking at the Melbourne #ML & #AI Meetup about the #TokenWars - the conflict for token #data to train LLMs and the fight by IP rights holders to protect their data from scrapers.
You'll never look at ChatGPT or data the same way again.
www.meetup.com/machine-lear...
If you're in #Melbourne in mid-April, I am giving a redux of my #EverythingOpen talk about tokens, economics and the burden of web scraping for #AI training #data - the #TokenWars
Checkout this Meetup with Machine Learning & AI Meetup: meetu.ps/e/NW8rC/14fx...
Another example of #AIslop making the web harder to navigate, less valuable to regular users, and more lucrative for people generating revenue from ads ...
futurism.com/pinterest-ai...
#TokenWars #sloppAIfication
Excellent piece by @shaynelongpre.bsky.social for @technologyreview.com about the effects wrought by web crawlers - echoes a lot of the threads from my #TokenWars talk at @everythingopen.au recently
www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/11/1...
Another fantastic method to stop the #AI scrapers - part of what I covered in my #TokenWars talk at @everythingopen.au a couple weeks ago - this one is from @f4mi.bsky.social and it details how she uses the older .ass #subtitle format to confound scrapers. CHEF KISS
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/h...
Great piece from @ashleybelanger.bsky.social for @arstechnica.com that covers tools like #nepenthes which are providing a tarpit to trick #AI scrapers that ignore #robotstxt rules - very relevant to my presentation at @everythingopen.au on #TokenWars.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
I was recently in #Adelaide to present on #TokenWars at @everythingopen.au. Took a side quest to the #RadicalTextiles exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia #AGSA - and it was confronting, surprising, and - echoing a key theme of #EverythingOpen - decidedly #HopePunk.
