Topic: stealth crawling
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Major News Outlets Block AI Bots from Training on Content
A large majority of major news websites (79%) block AI training bots, and many (71%) also block retrieval bots, which prevents their content from being used to train models and from being cited in real-time AI answers. The primary reason for this blocking is economic, as publishers see little val...
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Britannica and Merriam-Webster Sue Perplexity AI Over Copyright Claims
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster have sued Perplexity AI for copyright and trademark violations, alleging unauthorized content scraping and traffic diversion. The lawsuit claims Perplexity copies content verbatim, misuses brand names with inaccurate responses, and bypasses technical ba...
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