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Google is reportedly feeding bad data to rival AI scrapers

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Google is reportedly poisoning its search results with deliberately bad data to interfere with rival AI scrapers training on the web.

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Google is reportedly feeding inaccurate data to competing AI scrapers as a way to degrade the quality of their training datasets, according to AdExchanger's roundup. The tactic reflects ongoing tensions over how AI systems access and use web content, with potential downstream effects on how alternative AI services index and rank information pulled from search results.

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