Kyle Wiens recognized something was wrong in July when his staff at iFixit, a website outlining how to fix common household items, began receiving alerts about high traffic on their cellphones. The ...

Artificial Intelligence companies eager for training data have forced many websites and content creators into a relentless game of whack-a-mole, battling increasingly aggressive web crawler bots that ...

But the cure may ruin the web.... With AI's rise, AI web crawlers are strip-mining the web in their perpetual hunt for ever more content to feed into their Large Language Model (LLM) mills. How much ...

A Web crawler is an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web, typically for the purpose of Web indexing. A Web crawler may also be called a Web spider, an ant, an automatic indexer, ...

The boom of generative AI products over the past few months has prompted many websites to take countermeasures. The basic concern goes like this: AI products depend on consuming large volumes of ...

ChatGPT users have the option to scrap the web crawler by adding a “disallow” command to a standard file on the server. Artificial intelligence firm OpenAI has launched “GPTBot” — its new web crawling ...

When you look for something online using a keyword, the search engine goes through trillions of pages to create a list of results that are related to your keyword, according to CloudFlare. So how do ...

There’s an accelerating cat-and-mouse game between web publishers and AI crawlers, and we all stand to lose. We often take the internet for granted. It’s an ocean of information at our fingertips—and ...