Web crawlers for AI models often do not stop at copyright protection either – The Nepenthes tool sets a trap for them.

The CISPA researcher took a two-step approach. "First, we conducted an overview of the current work on web measurements that use crawlers," explains Stafeev. The result was a data corpus of 407 ...

Over the past several days, we’ve made some changes at MacStories to address the ingestion of our work by web crawlers operated by artificial intelligence companies. We’ve learned a lot, so we thought ...

These web crawlers, created by the San Francisco-based company, are said to have stretched some businesses' online bandwidth to the limit, even disregarding instructions to ignore specific websites.

With laws like Europe’s GDPR, “they cannot just take a photo of anyone on the web and use it.” Triplegangers’ website was also an especially delicious find for AI crawlers. Multibillion ...