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Snap, Nvidia scraping suits show how AI has transformed US scraping litigation

By Mike Swift ( February 4, 2026, 00:32 GMT | Comment) -- Generative AI is taking data scraping disputes to a new level as the ravenous hunger to obtain ever larger oceans of data to train large language models has fueled legal combat across the US. While data-scraping disputes often used to revolve around cybersecurity and antitrust law, they are now frequently being fought over IP laws such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.Before the rise of generative AI, disputes over data scraping were often David v. Goliath battles in which big platforms used anti-hacking laws to block upstarts from access to public data they hosted — data that scrapers said could allow them to create new products for consumers....

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