> The world's top two AI startups are ignoring requests by media publishers to stop scraping their web content for free model training data, Business Insider ha

> The world's top two AI startups are ignoring requests by media publishers to stop scraping their web content for free model training data, Business Insider has learned. Especially with the rise of SEO/GenAI spam content, I kind of wish media had more rigor on citing claims - rather than leaving them as bare assertions - ideally so that someone could follow the chain all the way back and see the actual evidence giving rise to (and hopefully substantiating) the claim. Is this from first-hand investigation where you could show access logs? Is this further communication put out by "TollBit", the licensing broker, in addition to their mentioned accusations that didn't include names? Is this coming from anonymous insiders at OpenAI/Anthropic who emailed BI? Did this information materialise in front of the article's author?