TechCrunch Interviews Aaron Fiske in its Article, "After AgentGPT’s success, Reworkd pivots to web-scraping AI agents"

TechCrunch interviewed Gunderson Dettmer partner Aaron Fiske in its article, "After AgentGPT’s success, Reworkd pivots to web-scraping AI agents." The article discusses Y Combinator summer 2023 cohort member, Reworkd, and its pivot to focus on web scraping.

Despite potential legal challenges, web scraping remains legally viable, as evidenced by a recent court ruling in favor of Bright Data against Meta. In the article it states, "The landscape is somewhat fluid right now, and the jury is still out on how “public” web data really is for AI models. However, Fiske says Reworkd’s approach, where customers decide what websites to scrape, may insulate them from legal liability."

Aaron said, "It’s like they invented the copying machine, and there’s this one use case for making copies that turned out to be hugely economically valuable, but also legally, really questionable. It’s not like web scrapers servicing AI companies is necessarily risky, but working with AI companies that are really interested in harvesting copyrighted content is maybe an issue."

Read the full article here.