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Built on Borrowed Data: The Hidden Human Cost of Your Favorite AI Tools
A new Amnesty International report reveals how mass data scraping and skyrocketing environmental costs are baked into the design of generative AI.
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Nearly Entire Spotify Music Catalog Pirated Into A 300TB Copy
Anna Archive claims to have scraped and backed up 86 million Spotify tracks, totalling around 300 terabytes, planning to distribute the data via bulk torrents.
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Why Reddit Filed Lawsuit Against Perplexity And Data Scrapers
In 2023, Reddit asked companies such as OpenAI to pay for access to its data, but some companies, instead of paying, scraped Reddit content from Google search results.
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Reddit Sues Perplexity for Scraping Data to Train AI System
Reddit has sued AI startup Perplexity and three other firms, accusing them of illegally scraping its data to train Perplexity’s AI search engine. The complaint claims the companies bypassed Reddit’s protections to steal data needed for Perplexity’s “answer engine.” This case joins a growing list of lawsuits by content owners over unauthor...
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Reddit Alleges User Data Theft, Sues Perplexity AI And 'Scraping' Partners
Social media platform Reddit sued the artificial intelligence company Perplexity AI and three other entities on Wednesday, alleging their involvement in an "industrial-scale, unlawful" economy to "scrape" the comments of millions of Reddit users.
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eBay and Beazley Reportedly Being Targeted by Advanced AI-Generated Phishing Scams
eBay, the ecommerce giant, and several other companies are reportedly witnessing an increased volume of personalised phishing attacks aimed towards high-level employees. As per the report, these phishing scams are being carried out using artificial intelligence (AI) systems to make them appear human-like and avoid the telltale signs of a typical sc...
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Cloudflare Introduces AI Audit Tool to Block Data Scraping AI Bots from Accessing Websites
Cloudflare announced a new suite of tools dubbed AI Audit which will offer website owners and bloggers more control over their content. The security tool will enable users to block or allow artificial intelligence (AI) bots which often crawl websites to scape data. The company is offering this tool to all of its existing users without any extra cha...
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LinkedIn Reportedly Trained Generative AI Models on User Data Without Permission Before Updating Policy
LinkedIn, the social networking site for professionals, was reportedly scraping user data on the platform without informing the users first. The company has now updated its terms of service to reflect this, however, it continues to automatically opt-in users unless they manually find and toggle off the setting to opt-out. Several netizens took to s...
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Musks X Bows To EU Data Protection Demands On Grok AI Scraping
Following the notification, X agreed to temporarily suspend the use of the data to train Grok - a commitment that became permanent on Wednesday
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Reddit to Update Web Standard to Block Automated Data Scraping From Its Website
Social media platform Reddit said on Tuesday it will update a Web standard used by the platform to block automated data scraping from its website, following reports that AI startups were bypassing the rule to gather content for their systems.
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Google Accused Of "Stealing Everything Ever Created On Internet" To Train Bard
The company also updated its online privacy policy earlier this month, stating that it can use publicly available data to train its AI tools.
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Twitter Sues Texas Entities Over Data Scraping as Elon Musk Reaffirms Reason for Tweet Read Limits: Report
Twitter has filed a lawsuit against four unnamed entities in Texas for data scraping, a local TV station said on Wednesday, explaining why the Elon Musk-owned social network had recently placed daily limits on the number of tweets a user could read.
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Elon Musk Acknowledges Tweet-Reading Limits Put Due To Data Scraping
witter introduced tweet-reading rate limits to address extreme levels of data scraping, Elon Musk reaffirmed on Thursday, in reply to a tweet that said the social media company has filed a lawsuit against four entities in Texas for data scraping.
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Twitter Restricted Tweet Viewing for Users: Impact, Challenges, Alternatives Explained
Elon Musk's Twitter has put a temporary limit on the number of tweets that users can see each day, a move that has sparked some backlash and could undermine the social network's efforts to attract advertisers. The limit is imposed to "address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation."
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Elon Musk's Twitter Puts Temporary Limit on Number of Tweets: Here's What It Means
Elon Musk's Twitter has put a temporary limit on the number of tweets that users can see each day, a move that has sparked some backlash and could undermine the social network's efforts to attract advertisers. The limit, imposed to "address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation", is the latest change by Twitter, which was last yea...
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Built on Borrowed Data: The Hidden Human Cost of Your Favorite AI Tools
A new Amnesty International report reveals how mass data scraping and skyrocketing environmental costs are baked into the design of generative AI.
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Nearly Entire Spotify Music Catalog Pirated Into A 300TB Copy
Anna Archive claims to have scraped and backed up 86 million Spotify tracks, totalling around 300 terabytes, planning to distribute the data via bulk torrents.
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Why Reddit Filed Lawsuit Against Perplexity And Data Scrapers
In 2023, Reddit asked companies such as OpenAI to pay for access to its data, but some companies, instead of paying, scraped Reddit content from Google search results.
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Reddit Sues Perplexity for Scraping Data to Train AI System
Reddit has sued AI startup Perplexity and three other firms, accusing them of illegally scraping its data to train Perplexity’s AI search engine. The complaint claims the companies bypassed Reddit’s protections to steal data needed for Perplexity’s “answer engine.” This case joins a growing list of lawsuits by content owners over unauthor...
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Reddit Alleges User Data Theft, Sues Perplexity AI And 'Scraping' Partners
Social media platform Reddit sued the artificial intelligence company Perplexity AI and three other entities on Wednesday, alleging their involvement in an "industrial-scale, unlawful" economy to "scrape" the comments of millions of Reddit users.
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eBay and Beazley Reportedly Being Targeted by Advanced AI-Generated Phishing Scams
eBay, the ecommerce giant, and several other companies are reportedly witnessing an increased volume of personalised phishing attacks aimed towards high-level employees. As per the report, these phishing scams are being carried out using artificial intelligence (AI) systems to make them appear human-like and avoid the telltale signs of a typical sc...
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Cloudflare Introduces AI Audit Tool to Block Data Scraping AI Bots from Accessing Websites
Cloudflare announced a new suite of tools dubbed AI Audit which will offer website owners and bloggers more control over their content. The security tool will enable users to block or allow artificial intelligence (AI) bots which often crawl websites to scape data. The company is offering this tool to all of its existing users without any extra cha...
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LinkedIn Reportedly Trained Generative AI Models on User Data Without Permission Before Updating Policy
LinkedIn, the social networking site for professionals, was reportedly scraping user data on the platform without informing the users first. The company has now updated its terms of service to reflect this, however, it continues to automatically opt-in users unless they manually find and toggle off the setting to opt-out. Several netizens took to s...
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Musks X Bows To EU Data Protection Demands On Grok AI Scraping
Following the notification, X agreed to temporarily suspend the use of the data to train Grok - a commitment that became permanent on Wednesday
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Reddit to Update Web Standard to Block Automated Data Scraping From Its Website
Social media platform Reddit said on Tuesday it will update a Web standard used by the platform to block automated data scraping from its website, following reports that AI startups were bypassing the rule to gather content for their systems.
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Google Accused Of "Stealing Everything Ever Created On Internet" To Train Bard
The company also updated its online privacy policy earlier this month, stating that it can use publicly available data to train its AI tools.
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Twitter Sues Texas Entities Over Data Scraping as Elon Musk Reaffirms Reason for Tweet Read Limits: Report
Twitter has filed a lawsuit against four unnamed entities in Texas for data scraping, a local TV station said on Wednesday, explaining why the Elon Musk-owned social network had recently placed daily limits on the number of tweets a user could read.
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Elon Musk Acknowledges Tweet-Reading Limits Put Due To Data Scraping
witter introduced tweet-reading rate limits to address extreme levels of data scraping, Elon Musk reaffirmed on Thursday, in reply to a tweet that said the social media company has filed a lawsuit against four entities in Texas for data scraping.
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Twitter Restricted Tweet Viewing for Users: Impact, Challenges, Alternatives Explained
Elon Musk's Twitter has put a temporary limit on the number of tweets that users can see each day, a move that has sparked some backlash and could undermine the social network's efforts to attract advertisers. The limit is imposed to "address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation."
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Elon Musk's Twitter Puts Temporary Limit on Number of Tweets: Here's What It Means
Elon Musk's Twitter has put a temporary limit on the number of tweets that users can see each day, a move that has sparked some backlash and could undermine the social network's efforts to attract advertisers. The limit, imposed to "address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation", is the latest change by Twitter, which was last yea...
