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

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.

Web scraping is the process of automatically extracting and organizing data from websites.

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

Cloudflare, one of the world’s largest internet infrastructure providers, has begun blocking AI web crawlers by default unless they receive direct permission from site owners. This new policy changes ...