No One Wants Apple To Scrape Their Websites for AI Training

A slew of major news publishers and top social media websites are blocking Apple from scraping their websites for AI training purposes. Per the report, media companies that have altered their robots.txt files to lock Applebot out include The New York TimesThe AtlanticThe Financial Times, Gannett, Vox Media, and Condé Nast. On the social media side, Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr all confirmed that they’ve blocked Apple from scraping their sites, as did the enduring internet elder Craiglist.

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