Reddit accuses 'data scraper' companies of stealing its informationReddit is taking a firm stand against four data scraping companies, including SerpApi, Oxylabs, and AWMProxy, by initiating legal proceedin...
23 Oct, 2025, 12.21 AM IST
Cloudflare introduces default blocking of AI data scrapersCloudflare has introduced a new setting allowing websites to block AI bots from scraping content without permission. The move aims to prote...
02 Jul, 2025, 09.50 AM IST
Cloudflare launches tool to help website owners monetise AI bot crawler accessThe tool allows website owners to choose whether artificial intelligence crawlers can access their material and set a price for access thro...
01 Jul, 2025, 03.41 PM IST
Reddit sues AI startup Anthropic for allegedly using data without permissionAccording to the complaint, Anthropic has resisted entering a licensing agreement even as it trained its Claude chatbot on Reddit content, ...
05 Jun, 2025, 08.41 AM IST
Reddit users' comments were used to train AI Chatbot, social media platforms sues artificial intelligence companyReddit has previously entered licensing agreements with Google, OpenAI and other companies that are paying to be able to train their AI sys...
05 Jun, 2025, 03.23 AM IST
Wikimedia Just Dropped a Massive Wikipedia Dataset on Kaggle — A Bold Move to Stop AI Bots From ScrapingThe beta dataset is being hosted on Google-owned Kaggle. The dataset features 'structured Wikipedia content in English and French', the Wik...
17 Apr, 2025, 08.20 PM IST
Companies alert as along come AI web spidersAI crawlers are computer programs that collect data from websites to train large language models. Enterprises are increasingly blocking AI ...
15 Dec, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
Canadian news media are suing OpenAI for copyright infringement, but will they win?The lawsuits claim that OpenAI "scraped" large amounts of content from media sites without permission. They have also claimed that the AI c...
02 Dec, 2024, 01.39 PM IST
ET Explainer: Cloudflare's new tool aims to block AI bots from scraping website contentCloudflare has introduced a new tool to block AI bots from scraping website content. The tool aims to protect content publishers from unaut...
09 Jul, 2024, 05.40 PM IST
AI bots taking over the Internet? Here's how companies are stopping this intrusionArtificial intelligence' rise has created some nasty problems for text-based websites, some of whom are complaining that the performance of...
08 Jul, 2024, 10.36 PM IST
Reddit to update web standard to block automated website scrapingAI startups face scrutiny for bypassing Reddit's updated scraping rules. Plagiarism accusations against firms like Perplexity highlight the...
26 Jun, 2024, 09.17 AM IST
Stand up to breaking newsAI summaries, including Google's feature, pose some key challenges for society and news publishers. For starters, they have issues with acc...
19 Jun, 2024, 10.51 PM IST
Have a human ghost in the AI machineThe widespread use of generative AI raises concerns about bias, particularly when it comes to training on human-generated content. The bias...
29 Jan, 2024, 11.27 PM IST
AI chatbots are scraping news reporting and copyrighted content: reportA top US news media trade group is calling out AI technology companies for scraping news material to train their chatbots, a media report s...
01 Nov, 2023, 09.16 PM IST
X will soon charge users 'a small monthly payment': Elon MuskElon Musk has suggested that his social media platform, X, may no longer be free in order to combat the issue of bots. Musk proposed a smal...
19 Sep, 2023, 01.41 PM IST
Elon Musk's paywall may hurt Twitter revenue and usage, say expertsTwitter Blue subscribers, or verified users, can now read a maximum of 6,000 tweets per day while people who have not paid for Twitter Blue...
03 Jul, 2023, 09.18 AM IST
Bot detection platform InfiSecure raises $600,000 in seed fundingThe startup offers businesses insights on bot traffic and eliminates unwanted or suspicious behaviour in real-time, using machine-learning ...
24 Nov, 2016, 09.34 AM IST