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Zuckerberg allegedly personally ordered the scraping of copyrighted material to train AI

Publishers sue Meta over alleged piracy of 267 terabytes of copyrighted books for AI training, potentially reshaping how you ...
MacStories

Additional OpenClaw Tips: Use Telegram Topics and Build a Web Scraping Pipeline

I’m using OpenClaw more and more each week, and as such, I’m fine-tuning my setup as I go. This brand new category of software is moving very quickly, which doesn’t help with achieving a sense of ...
The New York Times

Lawsuit Accuses Writer of Using Classmate’s Story in Best-Selling Memoir

A woman contends that Amy Griffin’s story of being sexually abused, as described in “The Tell,” was based on assaults that she herself suffered. By Katherine Rosman and Elisabeth Egan Amy Griffin, a ...
Wired

AI Bots Are Now a Significant Source of Web Traffic

The viral virtual assistant OpenClaw—formerly known as Moltbot, and before that Clawdbot—is a symbol of a broader revolution underway that could fundamentally alter how the internet functions. Instead ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns

As part of its mission to preserve the web, the Internet Archive operates crawlers that capture webpage snapshots. Many of these snapshots are accessible through its public-facing tool, the Wayback ...
Reuters

Google lawsuit says data scraping company uses fake searches to steal web content

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 ...
The Verge

Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’

SerpApi says it can deliver Google search results for use by AI tools, but Google claims it’s illegally evading bot-blockers to steal copyrighted content. SerpApi says it can deliver Google search ...
Charlotte Observer

Is Border Patrol’s Operation Charlotte’s Web in NC at odds with book’s lesson?

U.S. Border Patrol began making rounds in Charlotte on Saturday morning. This follows recent Border Patrol activity in Chicago that made headlines, with some reports alleging agents violated people’s ...
CNN

Granddaughter of ‘Charlotte’s Web’ author criticizes use of book title in DHS immigration crackdown operation

In the popular children’s book “Charlotte’s Web,” the title character, a spider, uses her web as an instrument of good to help secure the freedom of Wilbur, a pig on her farm. Federal immigration ...
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 ...
Reuters

Reddit sues Perplexity for scraping data to train AI system

Oct 22 (Reuters) - Social media platform Reddit (RDDT.N), opens new tab sued artificial intelligence startup Perplexity in New York federal court on Wednesday, accusing it and three other companies of ...