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Re:Apertus 70B: Truly Open - Swiss LLM by ETH, EPFL and CSCS by lllllm on Friday September 05, 2025 @06:56PM (#45144665)
common crawl anyway respects the CCbot opt-out every time they do a crawl.

we went a step further because back in old ages (2013 is our oldest training data) LLMs did not exist, so website owners opting out today of AI crawlers might like the option to also remove their past contents.

arguments can be made either way but we tried to remain on the cautious side at this point.

we also wrote a paper on how this additional removal affects downstream performance of the LLM https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06219 (it does so surprisingly little)

Re:Apertus 70B: Truly Open - Swiss LLM by ETH, EPFL and CSCS by pdpi on Saturday September 06, 2025 @12:15PM (#45150546)
"I didn't know to withdraw consent" isn't the same as "I consent". Thank you for doing the right thing.
Re:Apertus 70B: Truly Open - Swiss LLM by ETH, EPFL and CSCS by mycall on Saturday September 06, 2025 @01:59PM (#45151459)
Ah good points, thanks for the clarification.