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Freelancer boss accuses AI giant of ‘egregious scraping’

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San Francisco | Chief executive of ASX-listed freelance marketplace Freelancer.com Matt Barrie is among company leaders accusing $US18.4 billion ($28 billion) artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic of aggressively scraping data from websites to train its systems, potentially breaching publishers’ terms of service in the process, according to those affected.

AI developers rely on ingesting vast quantities of data drawn from a wide variety of sources to create large language models, the technology behind chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s rival, Claude.

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