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Meta's New Terms May Let It Train AI on News Sites Without Asking

A clause taking effect October 30th appears to give Meta permission to scrape websites linked to businesses that use its platforms, including publishers who never agreed to that deal.

3 min read
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He Scraped a Million Artists' Work for Fun. Now He's Helping Them Fight Back.

A student who downloaded Cara's entire image library and bragged about it online ended up regretting the stunt and building a protection tool with the platform's founder.

5 min read
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A new open-source font poisons AI scrapers with fake words they cannot detect

ShieldFont swaps real content words for plausible lookalikes in raw HTML, so the page looks normal to humans but feeds garbled text to the bots harvesting it for AI training.

4 min read
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Google Keeps Fighting AI Web Scrapers After Court Loss. Here's Why It Matters.

Google sued SerpApi for scraping and reselling its search results. A judge handed Google a setback last week, and Google says it's pressing on anyway, with Reddit quietly along for the ride.

3 min read
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