It’s no big secret that a lot of the internet traffic today consists out of automated requests, ranging from innocent bots like search engine indexers to data scraping bots for LLM and similar ...

ByteDance looks like it's eager to make up for lost time when it comes to scraping the web for data needed to train its generative AI models. The China-based parent company of video app TikTok ...

Tiger Woods has long said that winning takes care of everything, and the same certainly applies to web scraping. When your scrapers avoid hitting anti-bot walls or being served CAPTCHAs, you can meet ...

Meta has quietly unleashed a new web crawler to scour the internet and collect data en masse to feed its AI model. The crawler, named the Meta External Agent, was launched last month according to ...

A recent surge in generative AI scraper bot activity has been observed impacting the online landscape. New data indicates that these “gray bots” are increasingly targeting web applications.

Earlier this year, Zuckerberg boasted on an earnings call that his company's social platforms had amassed a data set for AI training that was even ‘greater than the Common Crawl’, an entity that has ...