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Common Crawl: The Web Scraping Backbone of Modern AI Models
The non-profit Common Crawl Foundation provides open web archives that have become the primary training data for large language models such as ChatGPT and Gemini. While widely used across the industry, the organisation faces intense scrutiny regarding paywalls, copyright, and crawler blocking.
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