Cloudflare has launched a new marketplace called “Pay per Crawl”, allowing website owners to charge AI companies for scraping their content. According to a report by Maxwell Zeff in TechCrunch, the system, currently in a private beta, aims to give publishers more control over their data. Website owners can set a price for each “crawl”, …
Recent academic studies indicate that using generative AI tools like ChatGPT can reduce brain activity and lead to less original writing. According to an article by Kyle Chayka in The New Yorker, these experiments suggest a “cognitive cost” to relying on AI for tasks humans previously did themselves. One study at the Massachusetts Institute of …
Scammers are increasingly using artificial intelligence to create and sell images of plants that do not exist. These fraudulent online listings target plant enthusiasts with pictures of exotic and impossibly perfect flowers or succulents, luring them with low prices. A blog post by the retailer Bob’s Market explains that customers who purchase these items may …
Generative AI tools are causing a significant drop in website traffic for news and book publishers, threatening their business models and the future of journalism. In an article for The Atlantic, author Alex Reisner reports that AI chatbots and search features keep users on their own platforms by summarizing content from other websites. This development …
Fanfiction writers are mounting organized resistance against artificial intelligence companies that harvest their stories without permission. The conflict escalated in April when a user scraped 12.6 million fanfiction stories from Archive of Our Own and uploaded them to AI platform Hugging Face. The controversy was reported by journalist Decca Muldowney for The Verge. Writers discovered …
Creative Commons has introduced CC signals, a new project designed to help control how artificial intelligence systems access and use online content for training purposes. The initiative, reported by Sarah Perez at TechCrunch, aims to create a framework that balances open internet access with growing concerns about unrestricted AI data collection. The system will allow …
A federal judge has delivered a landmark ruling in the ongoing legal battle between authors and AI companies over copyright infringement. Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California found that Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train its Claude AI models constitutes fair use under copyright law. The case began when authors Andrea …
Publishers face an existential crisis as artificial intelligence companies extract their content without providing fair compensation, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince warned at an event in Cannes. Christine Wang reported for Axios. Prince revealed striking statistics about the imbalance between content scraping and traffic referrals. Ten years ago, Google crawled two pages for every visitor it …
Sean Goedecke predicts that AI language models will eventually cause a mass-casualty disaster, drawing parallels to early transportation accidents. The author notes that railways took 17 years to produce their first major disaster, while aviation took 11 years. ChatGPT launched in November 2022, making the timeline significant. He identifies AI agents as the most likely …
The Wikimedia Foundation has paused its trial of AI-generated article summaries following fierce opposition from Wikipedia editors. The experiment would have shown machine-generated summaries at the top of articles on mobile devices for two weeks. Emanuel Maiberg reports for 404 Media that editors called the plan a “very bad idea” and warned it would cause …