AI's appetite for scraped content, without returning readers, is leaving site owners and content creators fighting for survival.

Web scraping has evolved from simple, rudimentary scripts into sophisticated, AI-powered systems designed for real-time data collection.

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Figuring out how to benefit society with web scraping and clearly communicating these benefits should become an important part of any business agenda.

Cloudflare claims the AI startup is bypassing robots.txt restrictions to scrape content, potentially exposing Perplexity to lawsuits from publishers like Dow Jones and the BBC.

Tech giants are rewriting the rules on web scraping, blaming unnamed third parties for disregarding robots.txt, and seemingly claiming the right to reuse anything posted anywhere for AI. Now ...