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‘Too smart to steal’: AI, made to help, faces backlash for data scraping
Launch of AI chatbots has sparked debates about data usage by AI companies to train their models. C…
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Remember going crazy over Pokémon Go in 2016? Turns out, you were training AI all along!
Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go, has been using data from the game to build a massive AI mod…
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Reddit's CEO says Microsoft, Anthropic, and Perplexity scraping content is 'a real pain in the ass'
Reddit partnered with Google in a $60 million annual deal to use the social media platform's conten…
Lian Kit Wee
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Living on $25,000: ALICEs who live paycheck to paycheck explain how they scrape together enough food to get by
Many households living paycheck to paycheck have to rely on thinly-stretched grocery budgets, food …
Allie Kelly
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Is Big Tech wrong to train AI models on 'messy' public data? A chat with synthetic data evangelist Ali Golshan.
Ali Golshan, cofounder and CEO of synthetic data platform Gretel, says using synthetic data to tra…
Lakshmi Varanasi
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Gen Z data scientist says many majors in the field are interchangeable — so this is what to do if you want an AI job
A Gen Z data scientist recommends building your own AI project to get hands-on experience to talk a…
Ana Altchek
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Jack Dorsey says 'running Twitter is hard' but tells Elon Musk it's 'critical to preserve the open internet' after data scraping crackdown
The Twitter co-founder said it's "easy to critique the decisions from afar" after Elon Musk faced a…
Jyoti Mann
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Elon Musk says Twitter will limit the number of posts users can see a day to limit 'extreme levels' of data scraping by AI companies
Elon Musk said Twitter had to take "drastic and immediate action" to deal with what he called aggre…
Jyoti Mann
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Elon Musk blamed data scraping for strict 'rate limits' on viewing tweets. Twitter's former head of trust and safety says it's not the first time the site's been broken by someone 'bumbling around in the rate limiter.'
Yoel Roth posted on Bluesky social that Elon Musk's statement blaming data scraping for the rate li…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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Top websites block Google from training AI models on their data. Nowhere near as much as OpenAI, though.
More top sites are using a new tool to stop Google from training its AI models on their data. It's …
Hugh Langley
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A leaked Facebook PR memo shows how the company plans to downplay data leaks obtained through 'scraping' and sidestep criticism
The Facebook PR email said it planned to frame data scraping as a "broad industry issue" to avoid c…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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What is web scraping? Here's what you need to know about the process of collecting automated data from websites, and its uses
Web scraping is the process of using automated software, like bots, to extract structured data from…
Dave Johnson
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Facebook is suing a Ukrainian hacker it alleges scraped and sold publicly available user information from 178 million accounts
Facebook alleges Alexander Alexandrovich Solonchenko scraped the phone numbers and user IDs from 18…
Madison Hall
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Scraped personal data of 1.3 million Clubhouse users has reportedly been posted online
The posted personal data of Clubhouse users includes names, social media profiles, and other detail…
Katie Canales
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Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a 'perpetual police line-up'
Law enforcement officers have used Clearview AI's facial recognition database nearly a million time…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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User data stolen from genetic testing giant 23andMe is now for sale on the dark web
User data from 23andMe accounts has been leaked and put up for sale on a dark web forum after what …
Lakshmi Varanasi
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Hackers scraped data from 500 million LinkedIn users - about two-thirds of the platform's userbase - and have posted it for sale online
LinkedIn said "the posted dataset appears to include publicly viewable information that was scraped…
Katie Canales
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A long list of tech companies are rushing to give themselves the right to use people's data to train AI
More companies are quietly giving themselves permission to use consumer data to train generative AI…