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Reddit has recently blocked The Internet Archive from archiving forum posts, replies, and personal profiles on their site.
The web is awash with bots that scrape data without permission. Now content creators are poisoning the well of artificial ...
PimEyes, Scarlett says, has scraped images of the dead to populate its database. By indexing their facial features, the site’s algorithms can help those images identify living people through ...
Siobhan Ball of The Mary Sue found it ironic that a company like Midjourney, which built its AI image synthesis models using training data scraped off the Internet without seeking permission ...
Clearview AI scraped 30 billion photos from social media to build its facial recognition database. US police have used the database nearly a million times, the company's CEO told the BBC.
Google’s AI mining-by-default proposal to the Australian government comes a month after the company declared it would scrape all the internet's data.
Google’s updated privacy policy now specifies that it may use “publicly available information” scraped from the web to train and create new AI products and features.
Thousands of images—including identifiable faces—were found in a small subset of DataComp CommonPool, a major AI training set for image generation scraped from the web.
Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added ...
AI startup Perplexity is accused of scraping content from websites that block such actions. Cloudflare reported deceptive ...