Scraping Bubble: Companies specializing in scraping or otherwise harvesting publicly available content to train AI models are becoming increasingly common. In particular, some firms are targeting ...

SerpApi is asking a federal court to dismiss Google's DMCA lawsuit. It argues Google lacks standing to bring anti-circumvention claims over search results that display third-party content. The case ...

SerpApi, a company that scrapes data, has asked a court to throw out a DMCA lawsuit that Google filed against them. SerpApi says that Google Google lacks standing as it doesn’t own the copyrights to ...

Is the data publicly available? How good is the quality of the data? How difficult is it to access the data? Even if the first two answers are a clear yes, we still can’t celebrate, because the last ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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