Dark Visitors
Track and Control Artificial Agents Crawling Your Website Half of your traffic is invisible to you. Analyze, protect, and optimize… read more
Perplexity’s grand theft AI – The Verge
Perplexity has been ignoring the robots.txt code that explicitly asks web crawlers not to scrape the page. Srinivas responded in… read more
This Is What It Looks Like When AI Eats the World – The Atlantic
Nobody knows what’s coming next. Generative-AI companies have built tools that, although popular and nominally useful in boosting productivity, are… read more
Common Crawl
The Common Crawl corpus contains petabytes of data, regularly collected since 2008. https://commoncrawl.org/
Google Says It’ll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI – Gizmodo
The practice raises new and interesting privacy questions. People generally understand that public posts are public. But today, you need… read more
Google confirms it’s training Bard on scraped web data, too – The Verge
The updated policy specifies that “publicly available information” is used to train Google’s AI products but doesn’t say how (or… read more
OpenAI Now Crawls the Internet with GPTBot – AIM
Though OpenAI is acknowledging that it scrapes the internet for training its large language models like GPT-4, this still looks… read more
Google says AI systems should be able to mine publishers’ work unless companies opt out – The Guardian
Publishers should be able to opt out of having their works mined by generative artificial intelligence systems, according to Google,… read more
GPTBot – OpenAI
Web pages crawled with the GPTBot user agent may potentially be used to improve future models and are filtered to… read more
The tricky truth about how generative AI uses your data – Vox
Simply put, generative AI systems need as much data as possible to train on. The more they get, the better… read more