X updates its TOS to ban scraping or crawling without "prior written consent", effective September 29, likely to stop AI models from training on its data (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:

X updates its TOS to ban scraping or crawling without “prior written consent”, effective September 29, likely to stop AI models from training on its data  —  Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, has updated its terms of service to prohibit scraping and crawling — likely to fend off any AI models training on its data.