AI Companies Ignoring Web Crawling Rules As Revealed in New Study

Saturday, 22 June 2024, 13:23

The post reveals a study by startup TollBit, reported by Reuters, which exposes how numerous AI companies are disregarding the robots.txt protocol's restrictions on web scraping. Despite directives not to crawl certain sites, these companies scrape data to enhance their technology training.
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AI Companies Ignoring Web Crawling Rules As Revealed in New Study

AI Companies Skirting Website Crawling Rules

A recent study by startup TollBit, as highlighted by Reuters, has brought to light the questionable practices of several AI firms.

Disregard for Rules

AI companies are ignoring 'do not crawl' instructions in robots.txt protocol.

  • Information Scraping
  • Multiple AI companies are scraping websites for data.

Enhancing Technology

  1. Scraped content is used in training AI technologies.

Despite implementation of protocols, the disregard continues.


This article was prepared using information from open sources in accordance with the principles of Ethical Policy. The editorial team is not responsible for absolute accuracy, as it relies on data from the sources referenced.


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