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#bright-data

Court rules in favor of a web scraper, Bright Data, which Meta had used and then sued | TechCrunch

Meta has lost a legal battle with Bright Data, an Israeli tech firm, over data scraping from Facebook and Instagram.
Meta had previously been a paying customer of Bright Data for web scraping services before suing them.

Facebook suffers big loss in lawsuit against data-scraping company

Meta's breach-of-contract claim against Bright Data has been dismissed by a federal judge.
Bright Data's scraping of publicly available data does not violate Meta's terms.

X Loses Lawsuit Against Data Scrapers

Bright Data won a legal case against Meta regarding scraping public data without login.

How Bright Data AI Made Web Data Scraping/Collection Effortless: The Challenges Before Bright Data AI Solutions | HackerNoon

Data scraping is essential for modern businesses, providing valuable insights while navigating challenges such as website defenses against excessive data requests.

How I Scraped YouTube Comments with Bright Data to Understand Customer Sentiment | HackerNoon

Social media platforms provide valuable insights for business growth through data scraping.

Court rules in favor of a web scraper, Bright Data, which Meta had used and then sued | TechCrunch

Meta has lost a legal battle with Bright Data, an Israeli tech firm, over data scraping from Facebook and Instagram.
Meta had previously been a paying customer of Bright Data for web scraping services before suing them.

Facebook suffers big loss in lawsuit against data-scraping company

Meta's breach-of-contract claim against Bright Data has been dismissed by a federal judge.
Bright Data's scraping of publicly available data does not violate Meta's terms.

X Loses Lawsuit Against Data Scrapers

Bright Data won a legal case against Meta regarding scraping public data without login.

How Bright Data AI Made Web Data Scraping/Collection Effortless: The Challenges Before Bright Data AI Solutions | HackerNoon

Data scraping is essential for modern businesses, providing valuable insights while navigating challenges such as website defenses against excessive data requests.

How I Scraped YouTube Comments with Bright Data to Understand Customer Sentiment | HackerNoon

Social media platforms provide valuable insights for business growth through data scraping.
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#digital-advertising

Reddit wants its ads more targeted than Google's, but without the privacy trade-offs

Reddit is focusing on user privacy while establishing itself in the digital advertising space.

How to Protect Marketing Spend with Ad Verification

Ad verification is crucial to protect ad spending from fraud and misplacement, allowing brands to allocate resources effectively.

Reddit wants its ads more targeted than Google's, but without the privacy trade-offs

Reddit is focusing on user privacy while establishing itself in the digital advertising space.

How to Protect Marketing Spend with Ad Verification

Ad verification is crucial to protect ad spending from fraud and misplacement, allowing brands to allocate resources effectively.
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#artificial-intelligence

The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacy

Scraping poses a significant challenge to privacy principles embedded in law and ethics.

Companies building AI-powered tech are using your posts. Here's how to opt out

The tech industry’s drive for AI has led to widespread data scraping, often without user consent.

The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacy

Scraping poses a significant challenge to privacy principles embedded in law and ethics.

Companies building AI-powered tech are using your posts. Here's how to opt out

The tech industry’s drive for AI has led to widespread data scraping, often without user consent.
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The HackerNoon Newsletter: Polymarket Explained: How Blockchain Prediction Markets Are Shaping the Future of Forecasting (11/9/2024) | HackerNoon

Bright Data AI simplifies and improves web data scraping and collection.
Polymarket utilizes blockchain to enhance prediction markets, providing better forecasting.
#copyright-law

OpenAI Whistleblower Disgusted That His Job Was to Vacuum Up Copyrighted Data to Train Its Models

Former OpenAI researcher raises concerns over the company's alleged copyright violations in AI training, warning of significant dangers to the internet's business model.

German Court Says Non-Commercial AI Training Data Meets Scientific Research Exception to Copyright Infringement

The court's decision supports non-commercial AI research, but leaves commercial applicability of copyright exceptions unresolved.

OpenAI Whistleblower Disgusted That His Job Was to Vacuum Up Copyrighted Data to Train Its Models

Former OpenAI researcher raises concerns over the company's alleged copyright violations in AI training, warning of significant dangers to the internet's business model.

German Court Says Non-Commercial AI Training Data Meets Scientific Research Exception to Copyright Infringement

The court's decision supports non-commercial AI research, but leaves commercial applicability of copyright exceptions unresolved.
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Here's the deal: AI giants get to grab all your data unless you say they can't. Fancy that? No, neither do I | Chris Stokel-Walker

The proposed AI data consent model is an opt-out regime, raising privacy concerns.
#ai

AI video startup Runway reportedly trained on 'thousands' of YouTube videos without permission

AI startup Runway scraped videos, movies from YouTube, used pirated content for AI model training.

TikTok's parent launched a web scraper that's gobbling up the world's online data 25-times faster than OpenAI

ByteDance's Bytespider has become the most aggressive web scraper, significantly outpacing competitors in data collection for AI training.

AI video startup Runway reportedly trained on 'thousands' of YouTube videos without permission

AI startup Runway scraped videos, movies from YouTube, used pirated content for AI model training.

TikTok's parent launched a web scraper that's gobbling up the world's online data 25-times faster than OpenAI

ByteDance's Bytespider has become the most aggressive web scraper, significantly outpacing competitors in data collection for AI training.
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#ai-training

OpenAI used over a million hours of YouTube videos to train its AI model: Report - Social News XYZ

OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos for AI training with legal concerns.
OpenAI utilized various data sources for AI research, including partnerships, to maintain global competitiveness.

Grass wants to put AI training data on a layer 2 blockchain - and it's using Solana to do it

Developing a Solana-based blockchain network for training AI data.
Grass app enables users to monetize Internet connection by offering network resources for AI training.

Meta fed its AI on almost everything you've posted publicly since 2007

Meta has been using publicly posted text and photos from users since 2007 to train its AI models.

Companies building AI-powered tech are using your posts. Here's how to opt out

AI development is intensifying privacy concerns as companies use data without explicit user consent.

Your old Facebook and Instagram posts were probably used to train Meta's AI. You can't opt-out as an American, but you can do this instead.

Meta has been scraping public posts since 2007 to train its AI models, affecting user privacy concerns.
EU users can opt out of data use for AI, a right not available to US or Australian users.

LinkedIn Deepens Its Facebookification with AI Data Scraping

LinkedIn is opting users into data scraping for AI training without clear consent, aiming to become a central social platform.

OpenAI used over a million hours of YouTube videos to train its AI model: Report - Social News XYZ

OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos for AI training with legal concerns.
OpenAI utilized various data sources for AI research, including partnerships, to maintain global competitiveness.

Grass wants to put AI training data on a layer 2 blockchain - and it's using Solana to do it

Developing a Solana-based blockchain network for training AI data.
Grass app enables users to monetize Internet connection by offering network resources for AI training.

Meta fed its AI on almost everything you've posted publicly since 2007

Meta has been using publicly posted text and photos from users since 2007 to train its AI models.

Companies building AI-powered tech are using your posts. Here's how to opt out

AI development is intensifying privacy concerns as companies use data without explicit user consent.

Your old Facebook and Instagram posts were probably used to train Meta's AI. You can't opt-out as an American, but you can do this instead.

Meta has been scraping public posts since 2007 to train its AI models, affecting user privacy concerns.
EU users can opt out of data use for AI, a right not available to US or Australian users.

LinkedIn Deepens Its Facebookification with AI Data Scraping

LinkedIn is opting users into data scraping for AI training without clear consent, aiming to become a central social platform.
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#copyright

Mark Zuckerberg: publishers 'overestimate the value' of their work for training AI

Zuckerberg suggests that most individual creators' work may not be as valuable in the AI landscape, hinting at an ongoing debate over copyright issues.

Elon Musk's X tried and failed to make its own copyright system, judge says

US district judge dismisses X Corp's lawsuit against Bright Data for scraping and selling data, highlighting tensions between data control and safe harbor laws.

Mark Zuckerberg: publishers 'overestimate the value' of their work for training AI

Zuckerberg suggests that most individual creators' work may not be as valuable in the AI landscape, hinting at an ongoing debate over copyright issues.

Elon Musk's X tried and failed to make its own copyright system, judge says

US district judge dismisses X Corp's lawsuit against Bright Data for scraping and selling data, highlighting tensions between data control and safe harbor laws.
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#generative-ai

New platform seeks to prevent Big Tech from stealing art

Generative AI technology has led to an increase in copyright infringement lawsuits against AI companies.
Tech companies argue that scraping data for AI models falls under fair use, while media companies believe they should be entitled to part of the value generated.

Controversial Nvidia AI leak prompts calls for new laws

Generative AI faces controversies over unauthorized data scraping, like Nvidia's case involving YouTube and Netflix videos.

LinkedIn Is Using Your Personal Data For AI Training - Here's How To Opt-Out - SlashGear

LinkedIn has faced backlash for using user content to improve AI features without clear user consent.

New platform seeks to prevent Big Tech from stealing art

Generative AI technology has led to an increase in copyright infringement lawsuits against AI companies.
Tech companies argue that scraping data for AI models falls under fair use, while media companies believe they should be entitled to part of the value generated.

Controversial Nvidia AI leak prompts calls for new laws

Generative AI faces controversies over unauthorized data scraping, like Nvidia's case involving YouTube and Netflix videos.

LinkedIn Is Using Your Personal Data For AI Training - Here's How To Opt-Out - SlashGear

LinkedIn has faced backlash for using user content to improve AI features without clear user consent.
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Let's Map Traffic Incidents... Again

The author reflects on the evolution of a 911 data viewer from 2010 to the present, showcasing advancements in technology used for web applications.

Nvidia Caught Stealing Mind-Boggling Quantity of YouTube Videos to Train AI

Nvidia scraped vast amounts of YouTube data without consent, raising legal and ethical concerns.
#microsoft

Reddit CEO says Microsoft needs to pay to search the site

Reddit CEO urges companies to pay for data scraping to maintain control over data usage.

Reddit CEO wants Microsoft to pay for its content

Reddit CEO criticizes Microsoft for using Reddit data without compensation and threatens to block them.

Reddit CEO says Microsoft needs to pay to search the site

Reddit CEO urges companies to pay for data scraping to maintain control over data usage.

Reddit CEO wants Microsoft to pay for its content

Reddit CEO criticizes Microsoft for using Reddit data without compensation and threatens to block them.
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A Black Box, But Show Me What's Inside; A Scrape You Can't Bandage | AdExchanger

One compromise is third-party brand safety tech available for YouTube. PMax offers asset-level conversion reporting for better ad performance insights.

Search engines that don't pay up can't index Reddit content

Reddit is aggressively blocking unauthorized data scraping and is allowing only Google to crawl its content, affecting not only chatbot makers but also other search engines.

X Loses Lawsuit Against Data Scrapers

Bright Data won a legal case against Meta regarding scraping publicly accessible data without login.
#ai-systems

Security News This Week: Google Is Piloting Face Recognition for Office Security

Amazon Web Services investigating Perplexity's data scraping practices
Legal battles in the tech and privacy sectors
Challenges with AI systems, deepfake technology, and healthcare recovery

A poster's guide to who's selling your data to train AI

AI systems like ChatGPT use scraped public data to train, sometimes leading to lawsuits.
Companies like OpenAI face legal challenges for using copyrighted material without permission.

Will ChatGPT ever stop learning?

ChatGPT scrapes data from the open web, leading to concerns about intellectual property rights and potential future scarcity of training material.

Security News This Week: Google Is Piloting Face Recognition for Office Security

Amazon Web Services investigating Perplexity's data scraping practices
Legal battles in the tech and privacy sectors
Challenges with AI systems, deepfake technology, and healthcare recovery

A poster's guide to who's selling your data to train AI

AI systems like ChatGPT use scraped public data to train, sometimes leading to lawsuits.
Companies like OpenAI face legal challenges for using copyrighted material without permission.

Will ChatGPT ever stop learning?

ChatGPT scrapes data from the open web, leading to concerns about intellectual property rights and potential future scarcity of training material.
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Midjourney Bans Stability From Using Its Images Without Permission

Companies engaging in scraping data face backlash and bans.
Ethical concerns arise in AI competition with issues like data scraping and copyright lawsuits.
#midjourney

Midjourney bans all Stability AI employees over alleged data theft

Midjourney banned Stability AI employees for alleged data scraping incident.
Midjourney implements a policy to ban companies involved in 'aggressive automation'.

Image-scraping Midjourney bans rival AI firm for scraping images

Midjourney banned Stability AI employees due to suspected bot activity for scraping prompt and image pairs.
Midjourney implemented a new policy of banning all employees of a company if aggressive automation or service disruption is detected.

Midjourney bans all Stability AI employees over alleged data theft

Midjourney banned Stability AI employees for alleged data scraping incident.
Midjourney implements a policy to ban companies involved in 'aggressive automation'.

Image-scraping Midjourney bans rival AI firm for scraping images

Midjourney banned Stability AI employees due to suspected bot activity for scraping prompt and image pairs.
Midjourney implemented a new policy of banning all employees of a company if aggressive automation or service disruption is detected.
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Spotify Wrapped is creepy, meaningless and shows just how much data big tech has on you

Spotify Wrapped has become a global event, showcasing the platform's dominance in the streaming industry.
The campaign includes brand partnerships, billboard advertising, and a launch gig with popular artists.
Wrapped results are more elaborately presented now, with character archetypes based on users' streaming habits.

Tool preventing AI mimicry cracked; artists wonder what's next

Tech platforms updating user terms for AI data scraping pose risks to artists; tools like Glaze help protect styles but challenges persist in a tech-driven market.

Cloudflare launches a tool to combat AI bots | TechCrunch

Cloudflare launches free tool to combat AI bots scraping websites for data.
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