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In a putative class action filed on June 28, 2023, in the Northern District of California, and in other similar cases, plaintiffs allege that OpenAI, Microsoft, and their respective...
Ever since the start of the AI revolution, data scraping has become a pressing issue for platforms like Twitter which hold vast amounts...
Twitter — or more precisely, its parent company X Corp. — has sued four John Does who have allegedly "engaged in widespread unlawful scraping of data" from the website. They were described as "unknown persons or entities" in the lawsuit, which only mentioned their IP addresses. The lawsuit accused them of flooding Twitter with automated requests far exceeding "what any single individual could send to a server in a given period" aimed at scraping data. In a response to a tweet about the lawsuit, Elon Musk said these entities tried to scrape the entirety of Twit...
Elon Musk blamed scraping by these unknown entities for Twitter's decision to put a cap on how many tweets a user can see per day
Elon Musk's X Corp. filed a lawsuit that alleges that four scrapers flooded Twitter with false and automated sign-ups in an attempt to obtain user data.