No one knows for sure exactly what ChatGPT — the most famous product of artificial intelligence — and similar tools were trained on. But millions of academic papers scraped from the web are among the ...

The first wave of major generative AI tools largely were trained on “publicly available” data—basically, anything and everything that could be scraped from the Internet. Now, sources of training data ...

Web scraping is an automated method of collecting data from websites and storing it in a structured format. We explain popular tools for getting that data and what you can do with it. I write to ...

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 ...

Amazon Web Services is looking into whether Perplexity is breaking its rules after Wired said the AI startup is swiping its web archives without consent. Perplexity, however, says it's following the ...

Data has become the cornerstone of modern business strategy, helping companies stay ahead in competitive industries. Among the many ways to gather data, web scraping has emerged as an indispensable ...

Bluesky might not be training AI systems on user content as other social networks are doing, but there’s little stopping third parties from doing so. Bluesky said that it’s looking at ways to enable ...

Google's actions against SERP scraping are forcing the search industry to reconsider how much ranking data is actionable.