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
Reddit seeks to strike next AI content pact with Google, OpenAIReddit, more than a year and a half after its first data-sharing deal with Google for a reported $60 million, is in talks for deeper integr...
17 Sep, 2025, 09.41 PM 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
Ghibli trend or Ghibli trap: Is OpenAI turning your personal images into free AI training repository?The recent trend of Ghibli-style portraits on social media has sparked privacy concerns, with advocates warning that OpenAI may be collecti...
01 Apr, 2025, 10.39 AM IST
OpenAI to face digital news firms of Ambani's News18, Adani's NDTV in copyright battleIndian news companies, including Gautam Adani's NDTV and Mukesh Ambani's Network18, have joined a legal battle against OpenAI, alleging its...
27 Jan, 2025, 01.24 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
Major Canadian news media companies launch legal action against OpenAIIn a statement, Torstar, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press, and CBC/Radio-Canada said OpenAI was scraping large swaths of c...
30 Nov, 2024, 07.20 AM IST
Tech giants push to dilute Europe's AI ActThe EU has invited companies, academics, and others to help draft the code of practice, receiving nearly 1,000 applications, an unusually h...
20 Sep, 2024, 04.01 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
ETtech Explainer | NYT vs OpenAI: Why news publishers are fighting Big Tech over LLMsLast week’s copyright infringement lawsuit by The New York Times ( NYT) against ChatGPT- maker OpenAI has opened another battlefront betwee...
01 Jan, 2024, 06.01 AM IST
BBC blocks OpenAI data scraping, to harness Generative AIThe BBC's director of nations, Rhodri Talfan Davies, believes that the use of artificial intelligence (AI), specifically Generative AI (Gen...
07 Oct, 2023, 10.35 AM IST
Poland investigates OpenAI over privacy concerns"The case concerns the violation of many provisions on the protection of personal data, so we will ask Open AI to answer a number of questi...
21 Sep, 2023, 07.29 PM IST
John Grisham, other top US authors sue OpenAI over copyrightsThe proposed class-action lawsuit filed late on Tuesday by the Authors Guild joins several others from writers, source-code owners and visu...
20 Sep, 2023, 09.18 PM IST
Personal data of Indians in public domain may get shielded from AIChatbots may face lawsuits if they scrape Internet to use such data, say experts
17 Jul, 2023, 06.00 AM IST
'Not for machines to harvest': data revolts break out against AIAt the heart of the rebellions is a newfound understanding that online information - stories, artwork, news articles, message board posts a...
16 Jul, 2023, 10.41 PM IST
Google training Bard with scraped web data? Here’s everything you may want to knowGoogle has acknowledged training its AI systems using publicly available web data, prompting concerns over privacy, copyright infringement ...
06 Jul, 2023, 02.42 AM IST