Scraping is the automated collection of information from websites or other digital sources for storage or analysis. AI training uses massive-scale scraping to roam the internet and store information for later retrieval. section 11.1
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An AI system may gather information from web pages, YouTube videos, and other multimodal sources, then use stored or newly retrieved data to answer a question about a recent event. section 11.1
Scraping supports several stages of information use:
- Collecting information by roaming websites and other digital sources. section 11.1
- Storing collected information in a large data store for later searches. section 11.1
- Retrieving current information through browser tools, search queries, and selected results. section 11.1
