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 ...

Spread the loveIn an age where artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving, new data from Cloudflare reveals a concerning trend: AI bots are effectively strip-mining the web. This behavior raises ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced it is now the first Internet infrastructure provider to block AI crawlers ...

Website scraping can seem complex, particularly for those without programming experience. Eliot Prince explains how to approach this task using Claude Cowork, a conversational AI platform, alongside ...

Reddit Inc. has launched lawsuits against startup Perplexity AI Inc. and three data-scraping service providers for trawling the company’s copyrighted content to be used to train AI models. Reddit ...

Google has escalated its fight over who gets to profit from the web’s data, filing a lawsuit that accuses rival SerpApi of “stealing” AI-ready information by scraping Google Search at massive scale.

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 ...

Wikipedia has finally taken a stance against companies that scrape data from their website, particularly those that use it for training their AI models without consent, compensation, or permission ...

Wikipedia has sent a clear message to AI developer companies: stop scraping its pages and start using its paid API service. The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates the free online encyclopedia, has ...