How AI companies are secretly collecting training data from the web (and why it matters)

AI companies are quietly harvesting your web content. Learn how to detect their bots, block scraping attempts, and defend your work before it's used to train someone else's model

Like most people, my wife types a search into Google many times each day. We work from home, so our family room doubles as a conference room. Whenever we're in a meeting, and a question about anything comes up, she Googles it.

This is the same as it's been for years. But what happens next has changed.

Instead of clicking on one of the search result links, she more often than not reads the AI summary. These days, she rarely clicks on any of the sites that provide the original information that Google's AI summarizes.

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When I spoke ...