The China-based parent company of video app TikTok released its own web crawler or scraper bot, dubbed Bytespider, sometime in April, according to research from Kasada, a company that specializes ...

Scraping web data to train AI models is a controversial practice that has led to numerous lawsuits by artists, writers, and others, who say AI companies used their content and intellectual ...

In other words, Meta was a customer of Bright Data’s web-scraping services before it went to sue them, though it used the company’s services for a different purpose.