ChatGPT maker OpenAI successfully won a stay of discovery concerning newer models of ChatGPT that post-date the versions already involved in the broad multi-district litigation underway in Manhattan ...

The Justice Department's records related to Jeffrey Epstein are on their way to becoming public after President Donald Trump signed the "Epstein Files Transparency Act," but what could be in them, and ...

Several publishers and tech firms have voiced support for Really Simple Licensing (RSL), a new standard designed to ensure fair compensation for content scraped by AI crawlers. RSL was launched along ...

Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are just some of the major brands on board with the RSL Standard. Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are just some of the major brands on board with the RSL Standard.

Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, wikiHow, and many more content-publishing websites have banded together to keep AI companies from scraping their content without compensation. They’re creating “Really Simple ...

Visual artists want to protect their work from non-consensual use by generative AI tools such as ChatGPT. But most of them do not have the technical know-how or control over the tools needed to do so.

Accept a target domain as input from the user. Query archive.org for archived robots.txt files associated with that domain. Collect and unify the historical records across dates. Present results in a ...

In this article, ExchangeWire research lead Mat Broughton takes a somewhat surrealist look at the house of cards underpinning AI data gathering, and what can be done to protect publishers. Like ...

In this example robots.txt file, Googlebot is allowed to crawl all URLs on the website, ChatGPT-User and GPTBot are disallowed from crawling any URLs, and all other crawlers are disallowed from ...

Perplexity was discovered to be actively bypassing blocks from websites to scrape content in 2024, and a new report shows that it has continued with increasing sophistication as the company defends ...