Cloudflare now blocks AI crawlers by default, giving website owners more control over how their content is scraped for AI ...

Meta has confirmed that it is scraping public Facebook and Instagram posts from as far back as 2007, and there's little most of us can do about it.

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

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The company said in a blog post published last week that it has seen "an explosion of new crawlers used by AI companies to scrape data for model training". Related How AI tools are trained is ...

Meta has quietly unleashed a new web crawler to scour the internet and collect data en masse to feed its AI model. The crawler, named the Meta External Agent, was launched last month according to ...

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.

Meta ended its contract with Bright Data after learning it violated Meta’s terms regarding the collection and selling of data, Stone said. The company sued Bright Data on Jan. 6 to stop its data ...

Meta has dropped its lawsuit against Israeli web-scraping company Bright Data, after losing a key claim in its case a few weeks ago. The social networking giant has a history of waging war against ...