Topic: content scraping
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Reddit Sues Perplexity for Alleged Google Data Theft
Reddit is suing Perplexity for allegedly conspiring to illegally scrape its content from Google search results, bypassing anti-scraping protections. Reddit provided evidence by setting a digital trap, where Perplexity reproduced unique test content from Google's search results within hours. Perpl...
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Perplexity AI Partners with Getty Images in Major Licensing Deal
Perplexity AI has secured a multi-year licensing deal with Getty Images, allowing legal use of its image library to enhance AI-driven search platforms and address past content scraping concerns. The partnership legitimizes Perplexity's prior use of Getty's imagery, which had faced plagiarism accu...
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Why You Shouldn't Trust AI for Product Advice, Warns Tech CEO
AI systems increasingly prioritize marketing materials over impartial journalism in their responses, potentially leading to biased shopping recommendations. Technology leader Vivek Shah advises users to critically examine the sources behind AI chatbot answers to ensure they receive balanced infor...
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How Google and AI Are Sabotaging Food Bloggers' Thanksgiving
Google's AI Overviews and automated systems are causing significant traffic and revenue declines for food bloggers by summarizing recipes directly in search results, reducing clicks to original sites. AI-generated summaries often contain dangerously inaccurate cooking advice and remix content fro...
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Meta Accused of Using Pirated Porn to Train Its AI Superintelligence
Strike 3 Holdings has sued Meta, alleging the tech giant illegally downloaded and distributed 2,396 of its copyrighted adult videos via BitTorrent since 2018 to train AI systems. The lawsuit claims Meta sought this content for its unique visual and anatomical details to create more realistic AI-g...
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My Unexpected AI Travel Companion
AI tools like Gemini and ChatGPT proved highly effective for spontaneous travel planning, offering quick, tailored recommendations for hidden gems and practical details such as RV parking that surpassed traditional search engine results. The reliability of AI travel suggestions depends on synthes...
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New York Times Sues Perplexity Over Copyright
The New York Times has sued AI company Perplexity for copyright infringement, alleging its products use and repackage Times content without permission or payment, substituting for the newspaper's own offerings. The lawsuit, part of a broader industry campaign, aims to pressure AI firms into forma...
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