Web scraping traces its roots back to the very origin of the internet. In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web to enable faster communication among researchers. In those early days ...

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Meta's new AI bots, Meta-ExternalAgent and Meta-ExternalFetcher, scrape web data and may bypass robots.txt rules.

Meta has emerged from the Metaverse to become a major player on the AI court. As such, the company has its own team of web crawlers that scrape pages that don’t have the Robots.txt protocol. Or ...

In this case, Meta had brought to the court an example of Bright Data’s web-scraping activities — a massive dataset that included 615 million records of Instagram data that sold for $860,000.

Content scraping is a powerful tool that can be used ethically or abusively. As AI models and web platforms grow more sophisticated, the battle over who owns and controls digital content is only ...

Bright Data claimed it is not a “user” of Facebook or Instagram if it is not logged into a Meta account while scraping, and Chen agreed. “When subjected to established canons of construction, the ...

For Meta users in the U.S., there isn’t a way to stop Meta A.I. from learning from your public social media posts, as there are no privacy laws specific to this.

Meta has been using user content on Instagram for AI data scraping. If you haven't known this yet, you need to scroll further on IG the next time you open the app.

Because European countries have stricter privacy laws, Meta gave users there advance notice of the AI scrape, which begins June 26. Americans are out of luck — the AI scraping has already begun ...

Artists are fleeing Instagram to keep their work out of Meta’s AI. Meta is training its AI on artists’ creations. They’re flocking to AI-skeptical app Cara to protect themselves.