Media companies announced a new web protocol: RSL. RSL aims to put publishers back in the driver's seat. The RSL Collective will attempt to set pricing for content. AI companies are capturing as much ...

Something to look forward to: The ChatGPT large language model was unveiled in November 2022, and in just a few months, the technology has garnered a multitude of criticisms and accusations from ...

Internet users can block GPTBot and keep their site out of ChatGPT. Internet users can block GPTBot and keep their site out of ChatGPT. is a reporter who writes about AI. She also covers the ...

Web crawlers, used by search engines like Google and Bing to scan websites and index content, are also used by AI companies to train LLMs. These models learn from the content of websites and any other ...

Multiple news organizations have blocked OpenAI LP from crawling their websites, according to a new report. The Guardian reported today that The New York Times, CNN, Reuters and the Chicago Tribune ...

Researchers in Simon Fraser University's International Cybercrime Research Centre are expanding their Child Exploitation Network Extractor (CENE)—an online "web crawler" that identifies and tracks ...

ByteDance may be planning to release its own LLM, and is aggressively using its web crawler, "Bytespider," to scrape up data to train its models, Fortune reported. Bytespider showed up on the scene in ...

Google shares the same crawl budget between GoogleBot, the organic free web crawler, and Google AdsBot, the paid Google crawler. Keep in mind, Google has dozens of crawlers and they all likely share ...