Inside Big Tech's underground race to buy AI training data
Tech companies are also quietly paying for content locked behind paywalls and login screens
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Tech companies are also quietly paying for content locked behind paywalls and login screens
"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 it's 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 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 nearly half of the U.S. online photo market.Today only 2 million people still use Photobucket, accor