Web-Scraping AI Bots Cause Disruption For Scientific Databases and Journals

AI Bots Overwhelm Scholarly Databases, Raise Ethical Issues

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence has brought with it a host of unintended consequences, particularly for the academic and scientific communities. Automated programs, often referred to as web-scraping bots, are increasingly overwhelming the digital infrastructure of scholarly databases and journals as they harvest vast amounts of data to train AI models. This surge in activity is creating significant disruptions, raising concerns among p…

Web-Scraping AI Bots Cause Disruption For Scientific Databases and Journals

Automated web-scraping bots seeking training data for AI models are flooding scientific databases and academic journals with traffic volumes that render many sites unusable. The online image repository DiscoverLife, which contains nearly 3 million species photographs, started receiving millions of d...