The models were trained on billions of images without anyone asking the humans behind them for permission. “They have sucked the creative juices of millions of artists,” says Eva Toorenent, an ...

AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. On Monday, ...

Generative AI tools are based on models that use huge amounts of content scraped from the web. OpenAI and Anthropic have said publicly they respect robots.txt and blocks to their web crawlers. Yet, ...

Meta has dropped its lawsuit against Israeli web-scraping company Bright Data, after losing a key claim in its case a few weeks ago. The social networking giant has a history of waging war against ...

It’s too soon to say how the spate of deals between AI companies and publishers will shake out. OpenAI has already scored one clear win, though: Its web crawlers aren’t getting blocked by top news ...

Data has become the cornerstone of modern business strategy, helping companies stay ahead in competitive industries. Among the many ways to gather data, web scraping has emerged as an indispensable ...

If you're worried about AI bots scraping your website content to train AI, Cloudflare can help you fight back. The company, ...