Your conversations with AI may be part of its training dataset.

The disclosure is the latest example of how the urgent push to release the files led to the government publicizing information it would normally keep under wraps. By Jonah E. Bromwich and William K.

TikTok Shop, the platform’s payment processing and ecommerce service, underperformed in 2024 and underwent numerous layoffs and reorgs last year. That being said, TikTok might be doubling down once ...

Tollbit, which tracks web-scraping activity, found that AI bots made up 2 percent of all traffic on the web in the fourth quarter of last year. That’s up from just half a percent in the first quarter, ...

On Tuesday, eBay updated its User Agreement to explicitly ban third-party “buy for me” agents and AI chatbots from interacting with its platform without ...

Amazon is blocking ChatGPT's AI shopping tools. Links to Amazon pages might not appear in a ChatGPT search. Amazon doesn't want AI bots cutting into its revenue. ChatGPT's new shopping research agent ...

AI models have a voracious appetite for data. Keeping up to date with information to present to users is a challenge. And so companies at the vanguard of AI appear to have hit on an answer: crawling ...

Several publishers and tech firms have voiced support for Really Simple Licensing (RSL), a new standard designed to ensure fair compensation for content scraped by AI crawlers. RSL was launched along ...

Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are just some of the major brands on board with the RSL Standard. Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are just some of the major brands on board with the RSL Standard.

Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, wikiHow, and many more content-publishing websites have banded together to keep AI companies from scraping their content without compensation. They’re creating “Really Simple ...