Condé Nast, Hearst among 300 media execs to push federal ‘bad bots’ bill on AI scraping

Stealth Bot Prohibition Act: 300 publishers lobby Congress

Executives from more than 300 news publishers are in Washington this week to lobby Congress for a bill that would ban AI “stealth bots”. The News/Media Alliance, a trade body for news and magazine publishers, organised the trip, Digiday reported on Tuesday. Those making the trip include Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch, Hearst Magazines president […] This story continues at The Next Web

Vogue, Esquire publishers plead with Congress to ban AI theft of their content

A cohort of news publishers are backing a recently introduced bill intent on stopping stealth bots scraping their content without paying content licensing fees.

Publishers push for new law banning bot-based AI scraping

The proposed law gives publishers greater control of how and when robots access their materials, and allows the FTC and others to bring litigation against bad actors.— This story first appears at TheDesk.net, a premium source for original news and analysis on the business of media and technology. Never miss a story — make sure our stories appear in your Google search results by adding us as a trusted source, and sign up for our free newsletters…

Publishers Urge Congress to Mandate AI Web Crawler Transparency

Publishers are urging Congress to force AI companies to stop concealing their web crawlers, which scrape content without permission by disguising as normal users or legitimate bots. They view this as theft of intellectual property that threatens journalism’s economic model and seek mandatory identification standards for transparency. This marks an essential first step toward balanced AI development.

Publishers ask Congress to force AI bots to say who they are

AI scraping bots would have to name themselves under a bill that 300 publishing executives took to Washington, as Cloudflare reset its own crawler controls.

Condé Nast, Hearst among 300 media execs to push federal ‘bad bots’ bill on AI scraping

More than 300 publishing execs are heading to D.C. to push Congress to crack down on AI bots that scrape their content without permission.