ByteDance looks like it's eager to make up for lost time when it comes to scraping the web for data needed to train its generative AI models.
The China-based parent company of video app TikTok released its own web crawler or scraper bot, dubbed Bytespider, sometime in April, according to research from Kasada, a company that specializes in bot management for companies with online data. The existence of the bot was also confirmed by Dark Visitors, which monitors scraper bots.
