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Are AI Web Crawlers 'Destroying Websites' In Their Hunt for Training Data?

"AI web crawlers are strip-mining the web in their perpetual hunt for ever more content to feed into their Large Language Model mills," argues Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at the Register. And "when AI searchbots, with Meta (52% of AI searchbot traffic), Google (23%), and OpenAI (20%) leading the way...

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techrights.org

Techrights — The Register MS Says "AI Web Crawlers Are Destroying Websites", So Why Does The Register MS Help 'AI' Companies? (Spoiler: Money)

People need to call out The Register MS on its hypocrisy

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AI Crawlers Overload Internet, Spark Arms Race and Web Fragmentation

In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence, web crawlers designed to harvest data for training large language models are emerging as a formidable threat to the internet’s foundational infrastructure. These automated bots, deployed by tech giants like OpenAI and Meta, scour websites at an unprecedented scale, consuming vast amounts of bandwidth and server resources. What began as a tool for search engines has morphed into a voraciou…

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