Perplexity, an AI search startup, has been spotted trying to disguise its content-scraping bots while flouting websites' no-crawl directives.… According to Cloudflare, a network infrastructure company ...

Internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare is launching a suite of tools that could help shift the power dynamic between AI companies and the websites they crawl for data. Today it’s giving all of its ...

A Hampshire MP has launched a new bid to help protect local journalism by forcing AI and other automated software to identify ...

AI bots scraping publishers’ sites for real-time information are now scraping publishers’ sites more than the bots used to train large language models. And they’re harder to detect. That’s according ...

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The volume of Internet traffic due to automated software — bots — has declined to its lowest point in at least six years, but the share of the traffic due to unwanted automated activity — "bad" bots — ...

Back when artificial intelligence was on the rise, AI scraping has been a massive problem as they were unlicensed and did not ask for the right permissions to access data from web sources, and that ...

For the past few months, Morten Blichfeldt Andersen has spent many hours scouring OpenAI’s GPT Store. Since it launched in January, the marketplace for bespoke bots has filled up with a deep bench of ...

The battle over data-scraping bad bots has been rumbling on for some time now, but with LinkedIn dealing with the fallout from a third major incident in four months, there are signs that the situation ...

Hoping this works, both to stop the scraping, but it occurs to me that this will expose and sink the path-to-profitability issue for these companies sooner rather than later. I expect CloudFlare to be ...