Monday, August 12, 2024
Today's Scraping Report

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AI start-up Anthropic accused of ‘egregious’ data scrapingWeb publishers say developer is swarming their sites, collecting content to train models and ignoring orders to stop

News outlets are accusing Perplexity of plagiarism and unethical web scrapingAmbiguity around copyright laws and AI web crawlers complicate matters

Anthropic’s crawler is ignoring websites’ anti-AI scraping policiesiFixit’s CEO says ClaudeBot hit the website’s servers ‘a million times in 24 hours.

New York Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft for using articles to train AIThe Times joins a growing group of creators pushing back against tech companies’ use of their content

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It's easier than ever to scrape and steal your content.For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.

Content scraping causes over 6% of revenue loss. And it's increasing quickly.Web scraping is a major threat, with 38% of retail customers concerned and 54% of companies losing 6% of revenue in 2022. Scraped data often leads to targeted attacks, social engineering, phishing, and fraud schemes.