AI startup Perplexity is accused of scraping content from websites that block such actions. Cloudflare reported deceptive ...

Cloudflare has accused Perplexity of bypassing website restrictions that explicitly block AI scraping. Perplexity's bot has ...

Some websites go out of their way to block AI from scraping their content, but according to Cloudflare, Perplexity is ...

Repsly, Inc., a leader in retail technology, is transforming field merchandising and retail execution through its advanced AI and image recognition solutions. By automating data capture and ...

AI companies use bots to scrape the web, in order to gather data to train their models. Anubis is a program designed to block these bots from scraping self-hosted sites.

Cloudflare, a company that runs 20% of the web, just flipped a switch that could end the open internet as we know it, forcing AI companies to pay for the content they’ve been taking for free.

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 ...

Hitherto, internet scraping has been a major part of gathering training data for large LLM (gen-AI) developers; but the process has raised questions and objections over legality, copyright ...

Web scraping is an automated method of collecting data from websites and storing it in a structured format. We explain popular tools for getting that data and what you can do with it.

People are replacing Google search with artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, a major shift that has unleashed a new kind of bot loose on the web. To offer users a tidy AI summary instead of ...

In January 2023, Getty Images announced it was suing Stability AI for allegedly using its photos to train AI models without permission, violating existing copyright law.

02 June 2025 Web-scraping AI bots cause disruption for scientific databases and journals Automated programs gathering training data for artificial-intelligence tools are overwhelming academic ...