Bots now generate more internet traffic than ... quest to harvest information to feed the insatiable demand for AI training datasets. These bots not only take data without permission or payment ...

OpenAI, the company behind the viral ChatGPT tool, has been hit with a lawsuit alleging the company stole and misappropriated vast swaths of peoples’ data from the internet to train its AI tools.

Microsoft Corp. has threatened to cut off access to its internet-search data, which it licenses to rival search engines, if they don’t stop using it as the basis for their own artificial ...