Publishers Adopt Aggressive New Tactics to Block AI Scraping

Publishers are now fighting back against unauthorized AI web scraping, abandoning polite requests for aggressive technical countermeasures.
Fast Company

The era of free AI scraping may be coming to an end

However, actions have a habit of inspiring reactions. Lawsuits are mounting as more media companies take on the AI giants over copyright, which may yet prove decisive—recent rulings notwithstanding.
Morningstar

CREATOR MEDIA COMPANY RAPTIVE ANNOUNCES 'TERMS OF CONTENT USE' AGREEMENT TO ESTABLISH PROTECTIONS AGAINST AI SCRAPING

Raptive is protecting its 6,000+ creator network by implementing an initiative to prevent AI crawlers from scraping independent publishers' content on the open web The new "Terms of Content Use" ...

Reddit Sues Perplexity AI, Alleging ‘Industrial-Scale’ Data Theft

The social platform accused Perplexity and its data partners of unlawfully harvesting user content to train AI systems.
Seeking Alpha

Cloudflare Just Changed How AI Crawlers Scrape the Internet-at-Large; Permission-Based Approach Makes Way for A New Business Model

Empowers leading publishers and AI companies to stop the scraping and use of original content without permission SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cloudflare, Inc. (NET) (NYSE: NET), the leading ...
PC Gamer

Cloudflare calls out Perplexity for hiding 'crawling activity' as AI bot scrapes websites that explicitly disallow it, Perplexity responds by calling them 'more flair than cloud'

It's AI versus the internet as Cloudflare and Perplexity have a public falling out over the 'stealth crawling' of restricted websites. The disagreement has spiralled to name calling, even, as ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Report: ChatGPT Using SerpApi To Scrape Google Search Results

Earlier we reported that ChatGPT from OpenAI seems to be using parts of Google search results for its answers (kudos to the SEO community for spotting it first). Well, according to The Information, ...