02 June 2025 Web-scraping AI bots cause disruption for scientific databases and journals Automated programs gathering training data for artificial-intelligence tools are overwhelming academic ...

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.

‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI.