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Cloudflare accuses Aravind Srinivas-led Perplexity of covertly scraping data from sites; AI firm reacts — details here AI startup Perplexity is accused of scraping content from websites that ...
Reddit has recently blocked The Internet Archive from archiving forum posts, replies, and personal profiles on their site. Will other social media platforms follow suit?
If you woke up this morning and want to choose chaos, I would listen to the new Machine Girl single “Come On Baby, Scrape My Data.” The New York-based electronic hardcore group’s first new ...
Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added technical blocks telling Perplexity not to scrape their pages.
Bright Data then sold the scraped data and developed and sold tools to help others scrape data and avoid detection. Bright Data argues its services allow customers to search for data that users choose ...
For one, the projects’ goals and methods appear to be largely the same. As Tager-Flusberg, the autism researcher, put it, ADSI seeks to amass data about Americans, thereby creating new data sets.
Cloudflare finds that Perplexity AI is 'repeatedly modifying' the company’s web-crawling bots to evade data-scraping measures on third-party websites.
The web is awash with bots that scrape data without permission. Now content creators are poisoning the well of artificial intelligence – but similar technology can also be used to spread ...
Reddit is now blocking the Internet Archive (IA) from indexing popular Reddit threads after allegedly catching sneaky AI firms—restricted from scraping Reddit—instead simply scraping data from ...
Reddit recently learned AI firms were using the Wayback Machine to scrape user data and will now limit its access to just the homepage.