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‘Manners for machines’: how new rules could stop AI scrapers destroying the internet

The Conversation · 🇦🇺 public Australia · · 906 words · By Daniel Angus; Jake Goldenfein; Kylie Pappalardo; T J Thomson
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What to know about ‘Manners for machines’: how new rules could stop AI scrapers destroying the internet

The article discusses public anxiety about AI's impact on content creation, detailing how AI companies scrape data from various sources. It explores the proposed CC Signals framework as a potential solution to balance AI use with creator rights, comparing it to historical web development norms.

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Claims checked 9
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Coverage gap: Low Left coverage
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What happened

Australians are among the most anxious in the world about artificial intelligence (AI).

Why it matters

This anxiety is driven by fears AI is used to spread misinformation and scam people, anxiety over job losses, and the fact AI companies are training their models on others’ expertise and creative works without compensation.

Common ground

AI companies have used pirated books and articles, and routinely send bots across the web to systematically scrape content for their models to learn from.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

The article discusses public anxiety about AI's impact on content creation, detailing how AI companies scrape data from various sources. It explores the proposed CC Signals framework as a potential solution to balance AI use with creator rights, comparing it to historical web development norms.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 9 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “The Australian government has ruled out a new copyright exception for text and data mining.”
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No evidence was gathered for this claim, and no web search or cross-reference results were provided to evaluate it.
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Claim 2: “CC Signals are standardised, and both humans and machines can understand them.”
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No evidence was gathered for this claim, and no web search or cross-reference results were provided to evaluate it.
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Claim 3: “CC Signals would allow creators to specify machine use permissions through machine-readable instructions.”
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No evidence was gathered for this claim, and no web search or cross-reference results were provided to evaluate it.
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Claim 4: “AI companies have used pirated books and articles, and routinely send bots across the web to systematically scrape content for their models to learn from.”
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Multiple web search results indicate that AI companies are involved in scraping content for model training. One result mentions Meta crawling the web for use cases like training AI models, another discusses the 'desperate hunger for news training data,' and a third notes that companies' data can be scraped for training purposes.
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web search NEUTRAL — Meta-ExternalAgent from Meta, crawls the webforusecases such astrainingAImodelsor improving products by indexingcontentdirectly.
https://neil-clarke.com/block-the-bots-that-feed-ai-models-b…
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web search NEUTRAL — Dappier ’ s solution would allow both largeandsmallAIcompaniestopull from an endless supply ofcontentfortrainingpurposes from a large ...
https://tvnewscheck.com/ai/article/ais-desperate-hunger-for-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Forinstance, Reddit’s bossand... Fingerprint says that it’s not only generativeAImodelsthat canscrapecompanies’datafortraining.
https://cybernews.com/editorial/ai-data-scraping-websites/
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Claim 5: “In the past, online scraping was subject to a kind of detente. Although scraping may sometimes have been technically illegal, it was needed to make the internet work.”
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The web search results discuss the legalities of web scraping in general (IPBurger.com) and legal ambiguities, but none of the three results explicitly state the historical concept of 'detente' or that scraping was tolerated despite legal ambiguities due to its role in enabling the internet. The evidence is too general to confirm the specific historical context claimed.
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web search NEUTRAL — "TheAmbiguitiesof Religious Freedom in The Public Hacker Group Known...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15570274.2018.1…
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web search NEUTRAL — Webscrapingislegal, for the most part. Soisdriving a car…until you break the law.This article will cover what you need to know about webscraping, includingitslegalities, how it works, and some common …
https://www.ipburger.com/blog/is-web-scraping-legal/
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web search NEUTRAL — Indonesia, withitshighinternetpenetration rates, rapid adoption of digital financial services, and significant digital and financial literacy gaps, has emerged as a fertile ground foronlinefraud and s…
https://techforgoodinstitute.org/insights/country-spotlights…
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Claim 6: “The framework provides more nuance and flexibility than the current scrape/don’t scrape environment.”
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No evidence was gathered for this claim, and no web search or cross-reference results were provided to evaluate it.
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Claim 7: “The greatest challenge with CC Signals is calculating and enforcing monetary or in-kind support requirements.”
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No evidence was gathered for this claim, and no web search or cross-reference results were provided to evaluate it.
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Claim 8: “Creative Commons has proposed a new voluntary framework: CC Signals.”
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The evidence provided for this claim consists entirely of Wikipedia articles on unrelated topics (Digital antenna array, Adobe software, The Transformers characters). None of the evidence supports or mentions Creative Commons or the CC Signals framework.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This article shows a list of characters from The Transformers television series that aired during the debut of the American and Japanese Transformers media franchise from 1984 to 1991.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Transformers_chara…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Digital antenna array (DAA) is a smart antenna with multi channels digital beamforming, usually by using fast Fourier transform (FFT). The development and practical realization of digital antenna ar…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_antenna_array
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of software products by Adobe Inc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Adobe_software
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Claim 9: “Australians are among the most anxious in the world about artificial intelligence (AI).”
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The provided web search results discuss anxiety regarding misinformation and job changes in Australia, but none of the three results specifically corroborate the claim that Australians are ranked among the most anxious globally about Artificial Intelligence (AI). The evidence is too general or unrelated to the specific claim.
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web search NEUTRAL — Amongworkers aged 20 to 24,therate of short-term employees has risen from 19.4% to 45.6%amongthemenpopulationand from 26.1% to 49.5%among...
https://gacetasanitaria.org/en-exploring-possible-health-con…
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web search NEUTRAL — This area hosts one oftheworld'smostextensive and significant indigenous Palaeolithic art galleries—petroglyphs that may be as old as 30,000 ...
https://www.perspectecolconserv.com/en-rock-art-mining-viole…
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web search NEUTRAL — Consistent with otherAustralianand international misinformation studies, peopleareclearlyanxiousabout being misled.
https://www.australiannews.net/news/278198156/fake-and-the-e…
info Disclaimer: This analysis is generated by AI and should be used as a starting point for critical thinking, not as definitive truth. Claims are verified against publicly available sources. Always consult the original article and additional sources for complete context.