In this post we look under the hood of BrightData's SDK and how it turns ordinary consumer TVs into exit nodes of an enormous commercial, residential proxy network leveraged by the AI industry to scrape web data and train language learning models.

In this post, we’re going to explore how the company Bright Data facilitates modern AI models scraping training data from the Internet using its residential proxy network.

  • dumnezero@piefed.socialOPEnglish
    12·
    9 days ago

    It looks like the TVs are scanning for accessible WANs on their own, and they still store some data (I’m not sure what happens when they reach full capacity.)

    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
      2·
      9 days ago

      I’m not sure what happens when they reach full capacity

      Same thing that happens to your computer or phone when it reaches 100% storage capacity. It slows to a crawl and crashes often, prompting the consideration of a new TV purchase.