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Underlying these disputes is the process of data scraping—the automated collection of images, texts, and other media from the internet. Web crawlers operate relentlessly, harvesting billions of images, videos, and documents from publicly available sources. For years, AI companies leveraged datasets like Lion 5B, containing billions of images and their descriptive captions, to train powerful models capable of generatingphotorealistic images from text prompts.