We keep an eye out for the most interesting stories about Labby subjects: digital media, startups, the web, journalism, strategy, and more. Here’s some of what we’ve seen lately.
“Matt Barrie, the chief executive of Freelancer.com accused the San Francisco-based company of being ‘the most aggressive scraper by far’ of his portal for freelancers, which has millions of daily visits. Other web publishers have echoed Barrie’s concerns that Anthropic is swarming their sites and ignoring their instructions to stop collecting their content to train its models. Freelancer.com received 3.5 million visits from an Anthropic-linked web ‘crawler’ in the space of four hours, according to data shared with the Financial Times. That makes Anthropic ‘probably about five times the volume of the number two’ AI crawler, Barrie said.” —
Tags:
Anthropic,
artificial intelligence,
copyright,
generative AI,
internet scraping,
the Financial Times,
training data
