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On Tuesday, the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare announced that it will block AI bots from scraping data from its sites without opt-in permission. Cloudflare hosts about 20 percent of the ...
Deezer announced on Friday that it will start labeling albums that include AI-generated tracks as part of its efforts to combat streaming fraud.
Cloudflare, one of the world’s largest internet infrastructure providers, has begun blocking AI web crawlers by default unless they receive direct permission from site owners. This new policy changes ...
A few weeks ago Timbaland unveiled the not-human artist TaTa, who was the first signee of his AI record label Stage Zero. Now there’s a new AI-generated act on the scene called the Velvet ...
Coordinated networks have spread fabricated videos about the Iran-Israel conflict, experts say.
It has switched to blocking AI crawlers by default for its customers and is moving forward with a Pay Per Crawl program that lets customers charge AI companies to scrape their websites.
The BBC has threatened legal action against Perplexity, according to a report in the FT. In what the report says is the corporation’s first attempt to stop tech companies scraping its content to ...
Researchers used an AI model to create a new image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, with some concern from experts.
In September Cloudflare introduced the option to block AI crawlers with a click, a decision aimed at halting scraping while it determined its AI strategy. Write to Denny Jacob at denny.jacob@wsj.com ...
Videos of people sipping on molten lava, eating rocks, and cutting fruits made of glass are racking up millions of views on social media.
Starting Tuesday, every new web domain that signs up to Cloudflare will be given the option to allow — or block — AI crawlers.