img2dataset VS askai

Lmao, no it doesn't. As we can see, their downloader uses very obscure "no ai" headers (which can be disabled, so its useless). They only claim it respects "robots.txt" because the google crawler respects it, if a site changes their robots.txt rules they don't remove it from their dataset, that is not "respecting". https://github.com/rom1504/img2dataset

The particular tool mentioned in the Vice article is Img2dataset, and right now, it doesn't pay attention to the robots.txt file, the normal mechanism you can use to dissuade well behaved bots from indexing your content. However, it does respect a new HTTP header directive, X-Robots-Tag: noai (and also noindex, though that's an existing and already well-known part of the robots.txt standard).

The established norm is that scrapers have to download robots.txt and support the standard robots.txt features, notably including `Crawl-Delay` which sets a rate limit. This is the established standard by which websites tell scrapers what the rules are for scraping them.

This tool is scraping sites, it has webmasters reporting actual disruption, it doesn't have robots.txt support. When people complained (eg in https://github.com/rom1504/img2dataset/issues/48), the author's stance was basically "PRs welcome". It looks like a third party recently contributed a PR to make it respect robots.txt (https://github.com/rom1504/img2dataset/pull/302), albeit without `Crawl-Delay` support, which is not merged yet.

I have seen the same thing with other recent AI tools (eg https://github.com/m1guelpf/browser-agent/issues/2) and I think it's important to defend the robots.txt convention and nip this in the bud. If a bot doesn't make a reasonable effort to respect robots.txt and it causes disruption, it's a denial-of-service attack and should be treated as such. No excuses.

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Websites can pass the http headers `X-Robots-Tag: noai`, `X-Robots-Tag: noindex` , `X-Robots-Tag: noimageai` and `X-Robots-Tag: noimageindex` By default img2dataset will ignore images with such headers.

//Then pull up the policy link first

To understand why image creators and artists may choose to specify such headers for their images, and choose to actively not consent to their images being collected, see [AI use impact](https://github.com/rom1504/img2dataset#ai-use-impact).

AI training would not be possible without the contribution of artists, and it is the recommendation of this tool's authors that you should respect their communicated wishes. However, if you have a legitimate reason to bypass these headers, to disable this behavior and download all images, you may pass --disallowed_header_directives '[]'

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it's not remembering pixels. for it to do that, it would have to have the pixels stored somewhere. It does not.

The laion 5b dataset is in the neighborhood of 220TB. (1) That is how much storage space you need to remember the pixels.

The stable diffusion 1.5 checkpoint is 7gb. (2)

1 https://github.com/rom1504/img2dataset/blob/main/dataset_exa...

2 https://huggingface.co/runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5/tree/m...

AI Bots do not respect these flags anyways

You can download it here:

https://github.com/rom1504/img2dataset/blob/main/dataset_exa...

You probably would want to stop after getting the metadata, unless you have 240TB available for the images :)

More details and links to dataset explorers here: https://laion.ai/blog/laion-5b/

We'll use several interesting technologies to achieve this: Strapi CMS to take care of the content management and backend, Astro which is a great new technology for quickly creating blazing fast frontend apps, and ChatGPT to provide the article summaries.

I was confused why https://chat.openai.com suddenly redirects to https://chatgpt.com which results in connection refused. Turns out chatgpt.com is in many blocklists (e.g. Pi-Hole) due to it being a potentially unsafe Domain before OpenAI acquiring it. So heads up if you use Pi-Hole / AdGuard etc.!

This API allows you to interact with ChatGPT programmatically, and I've built some cool agents on top of it. Check out the code and let me know what you think! :

ChatGPT unofficial API :

This project is a Node.js application that interacts with the ChatGPT conversational AI model using Puppeteer, a Node.js library for automating web browsers.

Files chatgptv1.js: This file contains the main logic for the ChatGPT bot, including methods for initializing the browser, sending messages, receiving replies, and handling errors.

bart.js: This file contains a function that uses the Cloudflare API to summarize the conversation history when an error occurs, in order to resume the conversation.

twochatbotsconv.js: This file is simple use of the API , which creates two instances of the ChatGPT class, initiates a conversation between them, and saves the conversation history to a file.

.env: This file contains the API token for the Cloudflare API, which is used in the bart.js file.

Dependencies :

puppeteer: A Node.js library for automating web browsers. fs: The built-in file system module in Node.js. winston: A logging library for Node.js. crypto: The built-in cryptography module in Node.js. axios: A popular HTTP client library for Node.js. dotenv: A zero-dependency module that loads environment variables from a .env file.

Usage:

Install the dependencies by running npm install in your project directory. Create a .env file in the project directory and add your Cloudflare API token:

API_TOKEN=YourfreeCloudFlareAPIToken In your code, create a new instance of the ChatGPT class and use the sendMessage and getReply methods to interact with the ChatGPT model:

const ChatGPT = require('./chatgptv1');

const chatgpt = new ChatGPT(); await chatgpt.initializeBrowser();

await chatgpt.sendMessage('Hello, ChatGPT!'); const reply = await chatgpt.getReply(); console.log(reply);

await chatgpt.closeBrowser(); If an error occurs during the conversation, the handleError method will attempt to save the conversation history and resume the conversation using the summarized context.

Before Running :

run Google chrom in the debug mode using 9220 port , run : google-chrome-stable --remote-debugging-port=9222

Customization :

You can customize the behavior of the ChatGPT bot by passing options to the ChatGPT constructor:

chatbotUrl: The URL of the ChatGPT interface (default: 'https://chat.openai.com/'). headless: Whether to run the browser in headless mode (default: false). saveConversationCallback: A callback function that will be called with the conversation summary and the conversation file name when an error occurs.

License:

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

After wrestling with it for a bit and eventually giving up, I instead turned to ChatGPT to see if it is smart enough for the task. With my free plan, I asked ChatGPT 3.5 the following:

Go to chat.openai.com and log in