The Real-Time Data Problem with LLMs

In many ways, generative AI has made finding information on the Internet a lot easier. But, because LLMs are trained on past ...
Dark Reading

A CISO's Playbook for Defending Data Assets Against AI Scraping

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 ...
Android

Google is Taking SerpApi to Court for Data Scraping on Search Results

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 ...
Computerworld

Google sues data scraping company

Google is now suing US data scraping company Serpapi for using hundreds of millions of fake search queries to bypass Google’s protection system and illegally obtain copyrighted material from search ...
Search Engine Land

Google sues SerpApi over scraping and reselling Search data

Google said today that it is suing SerpApi, accusing the company of bypassing security protections to scrape, harvest, and resell copyrighted content from Google Search results. The allegations: ...
Futurism

Millions of Private ChatGPT Conversations Are Being Harvested and Sold for Profit

You know those memes about how there’s no such thing as a free VPN? Here’s the ultimate cautionary tale. A recent investigation by Tel Aviv-based security firm Koi uncovered a massive data harvesting ...
techtimes

Wikipedia Wants Companies to Stop Scraping Data for AI Training, Offers Paid API Access Instead

Wikipedia has finally taken a stance against companies that scrape data from their website, particularly those that use it for training their AI models without consent, compensation, or permission ...
CNET

Wikipedia Asks AI Companies to Stop Scraping Data and to Start Paying Up

The free internet encyclopedia is the seventh-most visited website in the world, and it wants to stay that way. Imad was a senior reporter covering Google and internet culture. Hailing from Texas, ...
American Banker

Wells Fargo, PNC tell Trustly to stop screen scraping customer data

Wells Fargo has asked Trustly, a Stockholm-based data aggregator, to stop screen scraping the bank's customer data and to not use the bank's logo to do so. Wells Fargo and PNC have asked Trustly to ...
SiliconANGLE

Reddit is suing Perplexity and AI data scraping firms for using its data without permission

Reddit Inc. has launched lawsuits against startup Perplexity AI Inc. and three data-scraping service providers for trawling the company’s copyrighted content to be used to train AI models. Reddit ...
Inc

Reddit Sued Perplexity for Data Scraping—and Compared the Startup to a ‘North Korean Hacker’

On Wednesday, Reddit filed a lawsuit against AI company Perplexity and three other companies alleging the AI company illegally scraped Reddit data through the use of data scraping companies based in ...
Gizmodo

Reddit Sues a Collection of Startups It Says Are Wrongly Scraping It for AI Training Data

Let’s say a website makes it a violation of its terms of service for you to send bots onto its pages in order to vacuum up its text, which you want to package as AI ...