The web is awash with bots that scrape data without permission. Now content creators are poisoning the well of artificial ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission fined Meta 266 million euros -- more than $276 million -- saying the company failed to protect data for more than half a billion users.