Blocking AI bots is an important first step towards an open web licensing marketplace, but web publishers will still need AI companies (especially Google) to participate in the marketplace as buyers.

To implement web scraping, two main issues need to be addressed: sending network requests and parsing web content. Common tools in .NET include: - HttpClient: The built-in HTTP client in .NET, ...

Generative AI scrapers are coming for Amazon’s ecommerce data – and Amazon is fighting back, Modern Retail reports. Amazon recently added crawlers from Facebook, TikTok, Google, Huawei, Mistral, Ai2 ...

In this article, ExchangeWire research lead Mat Broughton takes a somewhat surrealist look at the house of cards underpinning AI data gathering, and what can be done to protect publishers. Like ...

Perplexity was discovered to be actively bypassing blocks from websites to scrape content in 2024, and a new report shows that it has continued with increasing sophistication as the company defends ...

When the web was established several decades ago, it was built on a number of principles. Among them was a key, overarching standard dubbed “netiquette”: Do unto others as you’d want done unto you. It ...

Most artists don’t have access to the tools that would allow them to block AI crawlers. And if they do have access, artists don’t know how to use these tools. Visual artists want to protect their work ...

Visual artists want to protect their work from non-consensual use by generative AI tools such as ChatGPT. But most of them do not have the technical know-how or control over the tools needed to do so.

A new report from Cloudflare claims that Perplexity has been scraping content from websites that have opted to block AI web scrapers. The company says that Perplexity's continued attempts to hide its ...

Web crawlers deployed by Perplexity to scrape websites are allegedly skirting restrictions, according to a new report from Cloudflare. Specifically, the report claims that the company's bots appear to ...

AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. On Monday, ...