Web scraping is a controversial topic these days—for some, it invokes dystopian images of big corporations invading their private data and using it to make robots smart enough to take human jobs. Thus ...

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Some of the biggest names in the creative arts have added their names to a letter addressing what for them is the growing problem of the unlicensed use of creative works for AI training. The ...

Courts have issued several rulings over the last decades on data scraping—and, in most cases, have authorized the practice. But generative AI has allowed scraping to proliferate to levels that experts ...

Data scraping is an automated process through which computer programs extract vast amounts of data from the internet at a faster rate than manual data collection methods. Some businesses scrape data ...

News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson didn’t mince words when addressing AI companies sucking up public data without regards to who ...

The business value of real-time data isn't negotiable anymore. But how that data is obtained is another matter. Is there such a thing as ethical web scraping? If so, what are the valid use cases? A ...

The legal woes are piling up for OpenAI, the startup behind the ultra-popular ChatGPT. NPR reports that The New York Times is considering suing OpenAI after attempts to reach a deal in which OpenAI ...

The latest changes to the Elon Musk-owned Twitter is causing problems for users, with the micro-blogging service preventing unregistered users from viewing the site and limiting access, to fight off ...

Cloudflare thinks it has an answer to the problem. The company is debuting a product that can disable AI-scraping bots from accessing your data. There are two downsides: you have to be a Cloudflare ...

Reddit has sued Perplexity AI for continuing to use Reddit’s content to train its AI model after prior warnings not to scrape ...

In a new lawsuit Reddit filed against Perplexity and other companies, the social media platform detailed a trap it set for ...