In February, the online image repository DiscoverLife, which contains nearly three million photographs of different species, started to receive millions of hits to its website every day — a much ...

Internet firm Cloudflare will start blocking artificial intelligence crawlers from accessing content without website owners' permission or compensation by default, in a move that could significantly ...

AI is not magic. The tools that generate essays or hyper-realistic videos from simple user prompts can only do so because they have been trained on massive data sets. That data, of course, needs to ...

Gone are the days when the web was dominated by humans posting social media updates or exchanging memes. Earlier this year, for the first time since the data has been tracked, web-browsing bots, ...

The open web is closing down for unwanted automated traffic A growing number of websites are taking steps to ban AI bot ...

Anyone who runs a website knows how annoying AI bots are these days. F5, the application delivery network company, found that more than half of all web visits come not from people but from data ...

AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. On Monday, ...

Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler ...