You can divide the recent history of LLM data scraping into a few phases. There was for years an experimental period, when ethical and legal considerations about where and how to acquire training data ...

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Despite Meta's previous stance against web scraping, it's now using a new crawler duo to do exactly that. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on Reddit ...

Meta has emerged from the Metaverse to become a major player on the AI court. As such, the company has its own team of web crawlers that scrape pages that don’t have the Robots.txt protocol. Or, at ...

Meta has lost a claim in its legal battle with an Israeli tech firm Bright Data, which it sued last year for scraping data from Facebook and Instagram via the web. The tech giant, which has a long ...

Meta has dropped its lawsuit against Israeli web-scraping company Bright Data, after losing a key claim in its case a few weeks ago. The social networking giant has a history of waging war against ...

Social media users voiced worries about a move by Meta to use information from public posts, including on Facebook, to train its chatbot. By Jesus Jiménez Meta has been expanding its artificial ...

To get ahead in the AI race, you need several things: compute power, a search engine that gives real-time, referenced and context-based knowledge, and an "answer engine", sort of like the Big Brother ...

Meta has been using user content on Instagram for AI data scraping. If you haven't known this yet, you need to scroll further on IG the next time you open the app. Once you scroll through your feed, a ...