{"id":50296,"date":"2025-08-07T11:47:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/50296\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T11:47:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:47:19","slug":"australian-news-websites-targeted-by-ai-giants-despite-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/50296\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian news websites targeted by AI giants despite blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ChatGPT owner OpenAI, Perplexity and other artificial intelligence giants are crawling and scraping major Australian news websites tens of millions of times a month despite those media companies taking explicit steps to prevent it from happening.<\/p>\n<p>New figures from Australia\u2019s biggest media company, Nine Entertainment, reveal the sheer number of times OpenAI and its rivals are scraping news outlets to inform their AI products. The rise of ChatGPT and other AI products have fuelled OpenAI\u2019s rapid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/technology\/openai-in-talks-for-share-sale-at-770b-valuation-20250806-p5mkvi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rise to a $770 billion valuation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ChatGPT owner OpenAI, Perplexity and other artificial intelligence giants are crawling and scraping major Australian news websites tens&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-50296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}