Balaam's Ass
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- Sep 27, 2026
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New York Times Latest Example of AI Doom Fear is Silly - The Last Refuge (opens the original)
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Bumped, because I knew the media were going to use this NYT article today: Several years ago, in explaining some of the site challenges CTH informed people of Google’s latest information control operation that was simply called “a spider crawl.” The spider crawl was an automated instruction to search the internet and find information that was beyond the parameters of their “trust and safety” guidelines. The automated search would crawl through the websites and comment sections, and report violat
New York Times Latest Example of AI Doom Fear is Silly - The Last Refuge (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Several years ago, in explaining some of the site challenges CTH informed people of Google’s latest information control operation that was simply called “a spider crawl.” The spider crawl was an automated instruction to search the internet and find information that was beyond the parameters of their “trust and safety” guidelines. The automated search would crawl through the websites and comment sections, and report violations based on key words in the search parameter. Spider crawling is essenti
New York Times Latest Example of AI Doom Fear is Silly - The Last Refuge (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Several years ago, in explaining some of the site challenges CTH informed people of Google’s latest information control operation that was simply called “a spider crawl.” The spider crawl was an automated instruction to search the internet and find information that was beyond the parameters of their “trust and safety” guidelines. The automated search would crawl through the websites and comment sections, and report violations based on key words in the search parameter. Spider crawling is essenti
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