Generative AI tools are based on models that use huge amounts of content scraped from the web. OpenAI and Anthropic have said publicly they respect robots.txt and blocks to their web crawlers. Yet, ...

Last summer, Anthropic inspired backlash when its ClaudeBot AI crawler was accused of hammering websites a million or more times a day. And it wasn’t the only artificial intelligence company making ...

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Web crawlers deployed by Perplexity to scrape websites are allegedly skirting restrictions, according to a new report from Cloudflare. Specifically, the report claims that the company's bots appear to ...

Perplexity, a company that describes its product as "a free AI search engine," has been under fire over the past few days. Shortly after Forbes accused it of stealing its story and republishing it ...

Artificial intelligence tech companies are refusing to abide by internet protocol when it comes to scraping data. Their ravenous scavenging behavior is upending the basic rules of the internet. On ...

With AI eating the public web, Reddit is going on the offensive against data scraping. With AI eating the public web, Reddit is going on the offensive against data scraping. In the coming weeks, ...

With robots.txt preferences widely ignored, the AI Preferences Working Group is developing a new way for publishers to shield content from AI bot scraping. For web publishers, stopping AI bots from ...

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 ...

June 21 (Reuters) - Multiple artificial intelligence companies are circumventing a common web standard used by publishers to block the scraping of their content for use in generative AI systems, ...