AI Startup Guide: Become a Worse Netizen

This satirical piece details the extreme measures an AI startup takes to obtain training data. Ignoring robots.txt and forging user-agents, they ruthlessly crawl forms, Git repositories, and even hijack their neighbor's Wi-Fi. They avoid connection pooling, refuse to close connections, and deliberately drop packets, all in the name of speed and data acquisition. The story humorously highlights the reckless disregard for rules and ethics exhibited by some AI startups in their pursuit of success, ultimately resulting in reputational damage.