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NASA volunteer develops ML tool for cloud study; OpenAI bot may ignore robots.txt

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A volunteer has created a machine-learning tool to assist NASA's Space Cloud Watch project in identifying rare cloud formations. This tool aims to help scientists understand changes in cloud behavior, such as increased frequency and lower altitudes, which may indicate shifts in long-term weather patterns. Separately, OpenAI has stated that its ChatGPT page-fetching bot might not adhere to robots.txt directives, as it operates under the premise that a human user requested the page. AI

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    NASA: Volunteer Develops Machine-Learning Tool to Identify Rare Clouds. “Certain kinds of clouds are misbehaving – appearing more often and lower in the sky tha

    NASA: Volunteer Develops Machine-Learning Tool to Identify Rare Clouds. “Certain kinds of clouds are misbehaving – appearing more often and lower in the sky than they used to. To help identify the factors influencing these changes (e.g. shifts in Earth’s long-term weather pattern…

  2. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Search Engine Journal: OpenAI Says Robots.txt May Not Apply To ChatGPT’s Fetch Bot. “ChatGPT’s page-fetching bot is disallowed by more sites than any other AI b

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