AI scraping has become its own media business
- May 18
- 1 min read

FAST COMPANY — It’s been an open secret that AI companies sometimes obtain data from third-party brokers, and media industry analyst Matthew Scott Goldstein recently published an extensive report on them.
The conclusions, as reported in Digiday, are eye-opening: At least 21 companies, several funded to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, routinely scrape publisher content without paying for it, and sell their “data services” to customers that include OpenAI, Amazon, and even other publishers like The Telegraph.
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