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Publishers have been warned that AI companies are relying on third-party content scrapers to steal publisher content, even if they block bots from those AI firms from visiting their sites.
Third-party companies, some of which openly boast about how they can get through paywalls, effectively steal content to order, allowing AI companies to answer ‘live’ news queries with stolen information from publishers.
A recent Digital Digging report found AI bots bypass paywalls by methods including reading non-paywalled versions of stories on other publisher sites, scraper sites and on internet archives.
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