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The going rates for data troves.

Apple is apparently among the companies wanting to license billions of images from Photobucket for artificial intelligence (AI) training, reports Reuters. The article notes that at its peak in the early 2000s, Photobucket was the world’s top image-hosting site. The media backbone for once-hot ser

Tech companies are quietly paying for content locked behind paywalls and login screens, giving rise to a hidden trade in everything from chat logs to long forgotten personal photos from faded social media apps

OpenAI, Meta, Google and other tech companies are considering some creative ideas to find more data to train their AI models.

Tech companies are also quietly paying for content locked behind paywalls and login screens

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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...