You can divide the recent history of LLM data scraping into a few phases. There was for years an experimental period, when ethical and legal considerations about where and how to acquire training data ...

Media companies announced a new web protocol: RSL. RSL aims to put publishers back in the driver's seat. The RSL Collective will attempt to set pricing for content. AI companies are capturing as much ...

The browser is increasingly becoming the central application on the PC. Today, users not only open their browsers to view websites, but also to work with office applications such as Word and Excel or ...

Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler ...

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 ...

Ever to Excel invites rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors from around the world to spend a week at Boston College learning about how to create a more meaningful life through the lens of Jesuit ...

AI is not magic. The tools that generate essays or hyper-realistic videos from simple user prompts can only do so because they have been trained on massive data sets. That data, of course, needs to ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. On Tuesday, the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare announced that it will block AI bots from scraping ...

Cloudflare, one of the world’s largest internet infrastructure providers, has begun blocking AI web crawlers by default unless they receive direct permission from site owners. This new policy changes ...

As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI. People are replacing Google search with artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, a major shift that has ...