AI's appetite for scraped content, without returning readers, is leaving site owners and content creators fighting for survival.

Cloudflare has accused AI startup Perplexity of dodging web restrictions and disguising its identity to scrape sites. Perplexity denies wrongdoing and calls the claims a fundamental misunderstanding ...

Among the privacy risks the regulators highlight is the use of data scraping for targeted cyberattacks such as social engineering and phishing; identity fraud; and for the monitoring, profiling ...