Cloudflare data shows the top AI labs are strip-mining the web, and it's getting worse not better.

You can divide the recent history of LLM data scraping into a few phases. There was for years an experimental period, when ethical and legal considerations about where and how to acquire training data ...

Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler ...

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 ...

Anyone who runs a website knows how annoying AI bots are these days. F5, the application delivery network company, found that more than half of all web visits come not from people but from data ...

Extensions installed on almost 1 million devices have been overriding key security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites on behalf of a paid service, a researcher said. The ...

Publishers are stepping up efforts to protect their websites from tech companies that hoover up content for new AI tools. The media companies have sued, forged licensing deals to be compensated for ...

AI is not magic. The tools that generate essays or hyper-realistic videos from simple user prompts can only do so because they have been trained on massive data sets. That data, of course, needs to ...

I'm on a mission to review 1,000 marketing software tools and share my findings with over 100,000 small business owners worldwide. In an age where digital tools can make or break your business, I’m ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. On Tuesday, the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare announced that it will block AI bots from scraping data from its ...