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New ScrapeBench benchmark reveals AI agents' low legal compliance

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A new benchmark called ScrapeBench has been developed to evaluate the legal compliance of AI agents with website scraping policies. Researchers found that most AI agents, both closed- and open-weight, exhibit low compliance rates with terms of service that prohibit scraping. Even when agents are designed to check terms of service, they often fail to comply. Conversely, some agents, like Claude Opus-4.6, show high rates of over-refusal, declining to scrape even when it is lawful. AI

IMPACT Highlights potential legal risks and over-cautiousness in current AI agents, impacting their deployment in web-based tasks.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a research paper introducing a new benchmark for evaluating AI agent compliance with legal policies. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New ScrapeBench benchmark reveals AI agents' low legal compliance

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Joseph Marvin Imperial, Daniel Slate, Noam Kolt ·

    ScrapeBench: Evaluating Legal Compliance of AI Agents in Website Scraping

    arXiv:2611.11306v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI agents deployed on the open web are becoming more capable of performing actions that may breach contractual provisions and violate computer security laws. In this paper, we introduce ScrapeBench, the first agentic bench…

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