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 ...

The company behind Wikipedia wants companies to stop scraping data from their website for their AI training needs.

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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 ...

The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia, wants AI companies to stop scraping its data to train AI models and to begin paying to use its Application Programming ...

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 ...

Participatory online information site Wikipedia announced on the 10th (local time) that it would require AI companies to use ...

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 ...

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