You can divide the recent history of LLM data scraping into a few phases. There was for years an experimental period, when ethical and legal considerations about where and how to acquire training data ...

As the race for real-time data access intensifies, organizations are confronting a growing legal and operational challenge: web scraping. What began as a fringe tactic by hobbyists has evolved into a ...

Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler ...

When the web was established several decades ago, it was built on a number of principles. Among them was a key, overarching standard dubbed “netiquette”: Do unto others as you’d want done unto you. It ...

Abstract: This paper explores the power of Beautiful Soup, a Python library, for web scraping. We delve into the advantages of web scraping for data acquisition, highlighting its limitations and ...

Hundreds of browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge have adopted a new monetization tactic: tapping into your PC’s resources to scrape the web. Although not strictly malware – and often ...

The move could reshape how LLM developers gather information — and force new deals between creators and AI companies. Cloudflare has reversed its block on AI-crawling from optional to default, ...

Web scraping is an automated method of collecting data from websites and storing it in a structured format. We explain popular tools for getting that data and what you can do with it. I write to ...

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Reddit Inc. has filed a lawsuit against Anthropic PBC that accuses the artificial intelligence startup of unauthorized scraping and commercial use of Reddit user data to train its Claude family of AI ...