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"There is a rush right now to go for copyright holders that have private collections of stuff that is not available to be scraped," said Edward Klaris from law firm Klaris Law, which says its advising content owners on deals worth tens of millions of dollars apiece to license archives of photos, movies and books for AI training.

By Katie Paul and Anna Tong NEW YORK (Reuters) - At its peak in the early 2000s, Photobucket was the world's top image-hosting site. The media backbone for once-hot services like Myspace and Friendster, it boasted 70 million users and accounted for...

At its peak in the early 2000s, Photobucket was the worlds top image-hosting site. The media backbone for once-hot services like Myspace and Friendster, it boasted 70 million users and accounted for nearly half of the U.S. online photo market.Today only 2 million people still use Photobucket, accor

At its peak in the early 2000s, Photobucket was the worlds top image-hosting site. The media backbone for once-hot services like Myspace and Friendster, it boasted 70 million users and accounted for...

Tech giants like Google, Meta, and Microsoft-backed OpenAI initially used reams of data scraped from the internet for free to train generative AI models like ChatGPT that can mimic human creativity.

The tech industry can’t agree on what open source AI means. That’s a problem.

News organizations The Intercept, Raw Story, and AlterNet have joined the growing number of organizations suing OpenAI for copyright infringement.

In the high-stakes world of AI, "The fundamental agreement behind robots.txt [files], and the web as a whole — which for so long amounted to everybody just be cool — may not be able to keep up..." argues the Verge: For many publishers and platforms, having their data crawled for train...

The News/Media Alliance has produced a White Paper, “How the Pervasive Copying of Expressive Works to Train And Fuel Generative Artificial Intelligence Systems Is Copyright Infringement and Not a Fair Use.”

For decades, a humble text file governed the behavior of web scrapers. But as the AI industry grows, the social contract of robots.txt is falling apart.