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

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.

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" ...

As the battle to train artificial intelligence models becomes more intense and Reddit’s rich content library becomes more valuable, the social media giant has taken steps to block the Internet Archive ...

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

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 ...

Reddit's lawsuit claims companies have scraped its data from search results to avoid having to make a licensing deal.

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, ...