The legal fight between the media and the AI companies that scrape their content has been going on so long that it’s created a new billion-dollar gray market. A group of almost two dozen “data services” companies are in the business of harvesting publisher content and reselling it to the highest bidder, according to a new report. It’s disturbing news, b…
The scraper economy hiding in plain sight
Why publishers can't sue their way out. Plus: LinkedIn buries AI slop, ArXiv bans the unchecked, and Microsoft tracks AI citations.
