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basically, one key way that companies like OpenAI train their language AI is by using "web crawler" software that roams around online, copying the text off web sites ("web scraping", as it's called) so they can have a consistently refreshed pile o' text for training their AI
you need lots of freshly written human words to train an AI -- and people are constantly writing stuff on their sites!
So what these tools do is ...
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