UK privacy watchdog to examine practice of web scraping to get training data for AI

Britain’s data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), is scrutinizing the legality of web scraping to collect data to train generative AI models. It announced on Monday the first consultation in a series focusing on generative AI models — the tools that create text or images based on a prompt after being trained on

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