Abstract: Web Scraping involves the use of bots for the purpose of extracting data from the online web. To extract such data, the web scraper must conduct at least 3 different steps, i.e., collect the ...

Apple is facing a lawsuit from YouTubers over alleged use of videos to train its AI models. The creators claim Apple used their content without permission, payment, or credit. A dataset called ...

Three YouTube channels have banded together and filed a class action lawsuit against Apple, as first spotted by MacRumors. According to the lawsuit, the creators ...

I think the strongest indicator of how normal using AI has become is the language we use as shorthand for it. It’s now extremely common for someone to say they asked “chat” for some piece of ...

SerpApi says Google is stretching the DMCA to protect ad revenue, not copyrights — casting the case as a fight over access to public SERPs. SerpApi is asking a federal court to dismiss Google’s ...

QUESTION: How can CISOs defend against AI scraping? Areejit Banerjee, Senior Manager of Data Protection Strategy & Product Trust; Researcher in AI Governance, Purdue University: Organizations with ...

Spotify has disabled multiple user accounts after an open-source group claimed it scraped millions of songs and related data from the music streaming platform. The move comes after Anna’s Archive ...

Google has filed a federal lawsuit against SerpApi, accusing the Texas firm of using “parasitic” methods to scrape and resell search results. Google alleges that SerpApi bypasses security walls like ...

Dec 19 (Reuters) - Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab on Friday sued a Texas company that "scrapes" data from online search results, alleging it uses hundreds of millions of fake Google search requests ...

Google has filed a lawsuit to protect its search results, targeting a firm called SerpApi that has turned Google’s 10 blue links into a business. According to Google, SerpApi ignores established law ...

Generative AI companies and websites are locked in a bitter struggle over automated scraping. The AI companies are increasingly aggressive about downloading pages for use as training data; the ...