Meta has emerged from the Metaverse to become a major player on the AI court. As such, the company has its own team of web crawlers that scrape pages that don’t have the Robots.txt protocol. Or ...

Meta's new AI bots, Meta-ExternalAgent and Meta-ExternalFetcher, scrape web data and may bypass robots.txt rules. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

Cloudflare now blocks AI crawlers by default, giving website owners more control over how their content is scraped for AI ...

In this case, Meta had brought to the court an example of Bright Data’s web-scraping activities — a massive dataset that included 615 million records of Instagram data that sold for $860,000.

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Yesterday, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Facebook ...

Scraping web data to train AI models is a controversial practice that has led to numerous lawsuits by artists, writers, and others, who say AI companies used their content and intellectual ...

Bright Data claimed it is not a “user” of Facebook or Instagram if it is not logged into a Meta account while scraping, and Chen agreed. “When subjected to established canons of construction, the ...

Meta ended its contract with Bright Data after learning it violated Meta’s terms regarding the collection and selling of data, Stone said. The company sued Bright Data on Jan. 6 to stop its data ...

How can we stop artificial intelligence (AI) from stealing our content? US-based web services provider Cloudflare says it has come up with a solution to web scraping - by setting up an "AI ...

Meta has quietly unleashed a new web crawler to scour the internet and collect data en masse to feed its AI model. The crawler, named the Meta External Agent, was launched last month according to ...