letting website owners block bots unwanted AI web crawlers. Because AI models require massive amounts of training data, AI companies typically collect that data from public websites by sending AI ...

If content owners want to block such bots, they use an established rule called ... is blocked by almost 10% of the top websites, including X and Yahoo, according to Originality.ai.

Automated programs gathering training data for artificial-intelligence tools are overwhelming academic websites.

Rather than block web scrapers, Cloudflare invites them to trawl a web of useless ‘AI-generated nonsense.’ Rather than block web scrapers, Cloudflare invites them to trawl a web of useless ...

Some AI vendors, including Google, OpenAI and Apple, allow website owners to block the bots they use for data scraping and model training by amending their site’s robots.txt, the text file that ...

Now, Cloudflare is telling customers on its CDN that it can find and block AI bots that try to get around the rules. The upshot of this globally aggregated data is that we can immediately detect ...

Traffic from bots run by artificial intelligence companies is disrupting scientific journal websites. Some publications report that their websites are now visited more by bots than by genuine users.

By Wednesday, after days of OpenAI’s bot returning, Triplegangers had a properly configured robot.txt file in place, and also a Cloudflare account set up to block its GPTBot and several other ...