US EditionAI Is Scraping the Web, but the Web Is Fighting Back
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The advance of bots powered by artificial intelligence has created new cyber-related dangers, and already flood traffic on the Internet.
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slashdot.orgThe Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
For someone who says she is fighting AI bot scrapers just in her free time, Xe Iaso seems to be putting up an impressive fight. Since she launched it in January, Anubis, a “program is designed to help protect the small internet from the endless storm of requests that flood in from AI companies,” has been downloaded nearly 200,000 times, and is being used by notable organizations including GNOME, the popular open-source desktop environment for Li…
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has been under continuous DDoS attacks for nearly a year, and is also facing high-frequency crawling pressure from a large number of AI crawlers. The attacks come from botnets and automated programs disguised as crawlers, which overload the servers. The FSF has only two full-time administrators to deal with the problem. Similar situations have forced Wikipedia to package data for download to reduce crawling pre…
Cloudflare’s Bot Paywall Could Ignite A Tokenized Content Gold Rush - Data Intelligence
The following is a guest post and opinion from Ahmad Shadid, CEO at O.XYZ. For years, a broken value exchange has defined the web. AI companies, racing to build powerful models, deployed bots to scrape a vast internet of content without permission or compensation. This practice of harvesting news, art, and data undermined the creators who fuel the digital world. Cloudflare, the gatekeeper for over 24 million websites and 16% of global traffic, h…
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