The digital media space is changing faster than ever. To keep up, I’m launching a new monthly session with my good friend, Jez Walters from What’s New in Publishing. We’re going to sort through the noise and highlight the latest stories and developments that actually affect you as a publisher. Here’s the rundown from our first session: The AI Scraping Loophole: How They’re Getting Your Content There’s a major disconnect between what AI companies say and what they do. On stage at the recent FIPP World Media Congress, OpenAI’s head of content claimed they do not scrape through paywalls and that they respect robots.txt files. Yet, publishers know their content is showing up in AI models. So, what’s happening? A recent exposé from The Atlantic shed light on the loophole: Common Crawl. AI companies are going to this massive internet library—a repository of pretty much every URL known to man—and scraping publisher content from that…
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