Back when artificial intelligence was on the rise, AI scraping has been a massive problem as they were unlicensed and did not ask for the right permissions to access data from web sources, and that ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AKAM) (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cloud company that powers and protects life online, today released a new State of the Internet ...

Outlets like The Guardian and The New York Times are scrutinizing digital archives as potential backdoors for AI crawlers.

Cloudflare offers a free solution to stop bots from scraping websites for AI model training data. Google, OpenAI, and Apple allow website owners to stop their data-scraping bots by editing robots.txt; ...

If you're worried about AI bots scraping your website content to train AI, Cloudflare can help you fight back. The company, which claims to proxy about 20% of the web, has introduced a new tool that ...

Perplexity, an AI search startup, has been spotted trying to disguise its content-scraping bots while flouting websites' no-crawl directives.… According to Cloudflare, a network infrastructure company ...

For the past few months, Morten Blichfeldt Andersen has spent many hours scouring OpenAI’s GPT Store. Since it launched in January, the marketplace for bespoke bots has filled up with a deep bench of ...

However, actions have a habit of inspiring reactions. Lawsuits are mounting as more media companies take on the AI giants over copyright, which may yet prove decisive—recent rulings notwithstanding.

Hoping this works, both to stop the scraping, but it occurs to me that this will expose and sink the path-to-profitability issue for these companies sooner rather than later. I expect CloudFlare to be ...

Blocking them is an option, but how effective is it? And what types of content are most at risk of being scraped and substituted by AI answers? And can you actually get AI bots to pay up? A good place ...

Web sites such as job boards face a persistent problem: their data is constantly pilfered by automated bots. The data ends up on other competing job boards, which have stolen the content. It’s a ...