Josh A. Goldstein, Girish Sastry, Micah Musser, Renee DiResta, Matthew Gentzel, Katerina Sedova &ndash; Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, USA; OpenAI; Stanford Internet Observatory, USA
Generative Language Models and Automated Influence Operations: Emerging Threats and Potential Mitigations
While some of this data is typically taken from relatively structured sources such as Wikipedia, a large majority of data usually comes from tools like Common Crawl that scrape the web for publicly available text.¹⁴⁷ [147. CommonCrawl freely publishes its archives of web data. See “So you’re ready to get started.,” Common Crawl, accessed June 27, 2022, https://commoncrawl.org/the-data/get-started/. But anyone can build their own software for web scraping or use other tools to extract data from websites.]