web scraping
AssessTechniques
Automated collection of data from websites.
Why it's here
Placed in Assess: 2 article(s) of evidence from 2 source(s), led by regulatory news, with 2 in the last 30 days. Confidence 37%.
Evidence (2)
- 9Hacker News·9/18/2026regulationMicrosoft and OpenAI face new copyright claims over AI training data
Unsealed court filings in The New York Times’ lawsuit allege Microsoft and OpenAI privately acknowledged AI training data collection amounted to theft and could harm publishers’ business models. The filings also cite claims of paywall bypassing, mass scraping, copyright notice removal, and product behavior that may substitute for original news sources.
- 8Ars Technica AI·9/17/2026regulationMicrosoft executive called AI news scraping the largest theft of labor in history
Unsealed court filings in the copyright dispute between news publishers, Microsoft, and OpenAI reveal internal remarks from Microsoft Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht. Hecht reportedly described news scraping for AI training as an unprecedented theft of labor and questioned whether the practice could be considered fair use.