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scraping

[skrey-ping] / ˈskreɪ pɪŋ /






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Media organizations are suing AI companies for allegedly scraping their content to power large-language models without compensation, while others have forged content deals.

From The Wall Street Journal

With movie screens across the country going dark and the theatrical exhibition industry hobbled by a series of unpredictable obstacles, many independent movie theaters are barely scraping by.

From Salon

In a cattle shed on the Somerset hills, near Bruton, we are scraping it off the floors with old fashioned shovels.

From BBC

In this type of fault, the two sides move horizontally past one another, similar to cars scraping by each other on a highway.

From Science Daily

More serious, Brussels insists X must make data about advertising on the platform readily available to outsiders, and shouldn’t use its terms of service to prohibit data scraping by “eligible researchers.”

From The Wall Street Journal