The Verge

Anthropic’s crawler is ignoring websites’ anti-AI scraping policies

iFixit’s CEO says ClaudeBot hit the website’s servers ‘a million times in 24 hours.’ iFixit’s CEO says ClaudeBot hit the website’s servers ‘a million times in 24 hours.’ is a news writer focused on ...
AOL

A new web crawler launched by Meta last month is quietly scraping the internet for AI training data

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 ...
Android

Meta's new crawler could scrape your page, even when you don't want it to

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, at ...
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SerpApi says Google is the pot calling the kettle black when it comes to scraping

'The DMCA was not designed to create walled gardens for tech giants' SerpApi, a Texas-based web scraping company, has asked a ...
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Cloudflare: Perplexity AI Acts Like North Korean Hackers, Ignores Scraping Blocks

Search engine provider Perplexity AI is accused of acting like "North Korean hackers" after the company’s bots were found crawling websites with anti-scraping rules in place. The accusation comes from ...