Google is hiring an anti-scraping engineering analyst to help create models for blocking search-results scrapers.

A freelance developer has sparked debate after publishing a technical demonstration showing how posts from a private online community could be extracted and migrated to another platform. The case has ...

The web is tired of getting harvested for chatbots.

According to the Database of AI Litigation maintained by George Washington University’s Ethical Tech Initiative, the United States alone now sees over 250 lawsuits, many of which allege copyright ...

Web scraping is a controversial topic these days—for some, it invokes dystopian images of big corporations invading their private data and using it to make robots smart enough to take human jobs. Thus ...

Some of the biggest names in the creative arts have added their names to a letter addressing what for them is the growing problem of the unlicensed use of creative works for AI training. The ...

South Carolina has the highest eviction rate in the country, and the state chapter of the NAACP wanted to find out why. Given the difficulty of tracking down every case by hand, the organization hoped ...

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With RSL, sites can embed licensing and royalty requirements directly on their website, making AI companies pay for the data ...

Cloudflare thinks it has an answer to the problem. The company is debuting a product that can disable AI-scraping bots from accessing your data. There are two downsides: you have to be a Cloudflare ...