Cloudflare claims the AI startup is bypassing robots.txt restrictions to scrape content, potentially exposing Perplexity to ...

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.

Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added ...

To identify the scrapers, Spawning operates a honeypot-like “defense network” of more than 1,000 websites, each hosting images that groups using LAION-5B would scrape to train a generative AI ...

The New York Times revealed Clearview AI, a secretive surveillance company, was selling a facial recognition tool to law enforcement powered by “three billion images” culled from the open web.

So, AI bots scrape the worldwide web, hoovering up any and all data they can to better their neural networks. Some companies, seeing the business potential, inked deals to sell their data to AI ...

What to know about web scraping Web scraping is usually an automated process, but it doesn't have to be; data can be scraped from websites manually, by humans, though that's slow and inefficient ...

Thinknum is a web platform that allows hedge funds and other investors to comb through online data on hundreds of thousands of public and private companies around the world.

One of the main benefits of using AI and ML for web scraping is the ability to extract data from unstructured sources – text, images, videos, and audio files that do not have a predefined format.

Users of Midjourney pay a monthly subscription fee to access an AI image generator that turns written prompts into lush computer-synthesized images. The bot that makes them was trained on millions ...