"Including children’s images in datasets has raised ethical concerns, particularly regarding privacy, consent, data protection, and accountability. These datasets, often built by scraping publicly available images from the Internet, can expose children to risks such as exploitation, profiling, and tracking. "
https://arxiv.org/html/2504.14446
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Q: Based on his ideas, would Adolf Hitler be for or against GDPR and right to erasure nowadays if he still lived?
A: It's reasonable to infer that Hitler would not support a regulation like #GDPR which emphasizes individual rights such as #privacy protection, data accessibility or erasure; and instead might favor more centralized control over information dissemination for propaganda purposes.
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Discover whether the #eBay #API or #webscraping is best for your needs. Compare the methods and get expert insights from Web Screen Scraping. https://shorturl.at/Jk0nN
ZDNet: Cloudflare just changed the internet, and it’s bad news for the AI giants. “The major internet Content Delivery Network (CDN), Cloudflare, has declared war on AI companies. Starting July 1, Cloudflare now blocks by default AI web crawlers accessing content from your websites without permission or compensation.”
AI chatbots like Perplexity aren’t built for reliable data extraction.
📉 Inaccurate fields
⚠️ No source control
🛑 Broken automation
That’s not scraping. That’s risk.
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Web scrapers get blocked when they don’t rotate their IPs.
🔁 IP Rotation = switching between multiple IPs to avoid detection and maintain access to public data.
We break it down in plain English in our Uncomplicated Series.
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Most teams scrape data.
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"The report, titled “Are AI Bots Knocking Cultural Heritage Offline?” was written by Weinberg of the GLAM-E Lab, a joint initiative between the Centre for Science, Culture and the Law at the University of Exeter and the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at NYU Law, which works with smaller cultural institutions and community organizations to build open access capacity and expertise. GLAM is an acronym for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. The report is based on a survey of 43 institutions with open online resources and collections in Europe, North America, and Oceania. Respondents also shared data and analytics, and some followed up with individual interviews. The data is anonymized so institutions could share information more freely, and to prevent AI bot operators from undermining their countermeasures.
Of the 43 respondents, 39 said they had experienced a recent increase in traffic. Twenty-seven of those 39 attributed the increase in traffic to AI training data bots, with an additional seven saying the AI bots could be contributing to the increase.
“Multiple respondents compared the behavior of the swarming bots to more traditional online behavior such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks designed to maliciously drive unsustainable levels of traffic to a server, effectively taking it offline,” the report said. “Like a DDoS incident, the swarms quickly overwhelm the collections, knocking servers offline and forcing administrators to scramble to implement countermeasures. As one respondent noted, ‘If they wanted us dead, we’d be dead.’”"
https://www.404media.co/ai-scraping-bots-are-breaking-open-libraries-archives-and-museums/
#AI #GenerativeAI #CulturalHeritage #AIBots #WebScraping #CyberSecurity #DDoS
TechCrunch: Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training. “Social networks are bolstering their terms of service against scrapers and bots that crawl the website to train AI models. Days after Elon Musk-owned X updated its terms to explicitly prohibit AI model training, decentralized social network Mastodon today updated its own rules to bar any kind of model training, as well.”
Scraping isn’t just about data collection.
It’s about precision:
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✔️ Consistent formats
✔️ Real-time reliability
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Are AI bots overwhelming digital collections?
A new GLAM-E Lab report shows how scrapers for AI training datasets are putting real strain on the infrastructures of galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. Technical bottlenecks, ethical dilemmas, and escalating costs—open culture is under pressure.
Read the full analysis:
https://www.glamelab.org/products/are-ai-bots-knocking-cultural-heritage-offline/
#DigitalHeritage #GLAM #WebScraping #OpenAccess #CulturalData #MuseTech #DigitalHumanities #GLAMlab
404 Media: AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums. “AI bots that scrape the internet for training data are hammering the servers of libraries, archives, museums, and galleries, and are in some cases knocking their collections offline, according to a new survey published today.” As you might imagine this drives me absolutely WILD.
Most companies collect data.
The smartest ones collect insights.
We put together a visual guide to the top 10 websites worth scraping for real-time, high-value business signals.
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TripAdvisor reviews = real-time travel intelligence. 🌍
From trend forecasting to competitor analysis, the data is gold if you can extract it correctly.
Our latest blog shows how businesses use TripAdvisor scraping to stay ahead, and how PromptCloud makes it easy & compliant.
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"To reiterate, whatever one's opinion of these particular AI tools, scraping itself is not the problem. Automated access is a fundamental technique of archivists, computer scientists, and everyday users that we hope is here to stay—as long as it can be done non-destructively. However, we realize that not all implementers will follow our suggestions for bots above, and that our mitigations are both technically advanced and incomplete.
Because we see so many bots operating for the same purpose at the same time, it seems there's an opportunity here to provide these automated data consumers with tailored data providers, removing the need for every AI company to scrape every website, seemingly, every day.
And on the operators' end, we hope to see more web-hosting and framework technology that is built with an awareness of these issues from day one, perhaps building in responses like just-in-time static content generation or dedicated endpoints for crawlers."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/keeping-web-under-weight-ai-crawlers
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AI companies: "We're just browsing!" Also AI companies: *scrapes 26M+ pages in March alone while bypassing blockers* Publishers: "This is fine" 🔥🤖
Traffic from AI bots grew 49% but monetization remains elusive. The digital feast continues unpaid.
Bots don’t scroll — they crawl. 🕷️
Today’s #UncomplicateSeries explains what a web crawler is and why it matters.
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