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AI Has Created a Battle over Web Crawling

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As AI continues to advance, the acquisition of data for training generative models is facing legal and ethical challenges. Websites are increasingly restricting access to their content through robots.txt, limiting the availability of high-quality, fresh data essential for training AI. The article 'AI Has Created a Battle Over Web Crawling' discusses how this could affect the performance of AI systems and the potential legal battles that might ensue over data use.

  • Generative AI's advancement depends on large-scale data.
  • Websites use robots.txt to restrict data crawler access.
  • High-quality website data revocations are increasing.
  • Legal enforceability of robots.txt is unclear.
  • Senior Editor Eliza Strickland authored the article.