Wikimedia has seen a 50 percent increase in bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content since January 2024, the foundation said in an update. But it's not because human readers have suddenly ...

Since summer 2023, you can prevent the crawlers from the AI company Open AI from reading your website and making it part of the artificial intelligence ChatGPT, which can be found at ...

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Imad is a senior reporter covering Google and internet culture. Hailing from Texas, Imad started his journalism career in 2013 and has amassed bylines with The New York Times, The Washington Post, ...

The rise of AI-generated content, also known as synthetic media, has mostly caused problems: It helps spread misinformation, steal from artists, and erode trust in what we see online. However, ...

Software developer Xe Iaso reached a breaking point earlier this year when aggressive AI crawler traffic from Amazon overwhelmed their Git repository service, repeatedly causing instability and ...

After Reddit's own AI deals with Google and OpenAI, the social platform is now trying to stop others from scraping its data without paying up first. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 ...

Entrepreneurs behind popular websites including iFixit, Read the Docs, and Freelancer.com claim to have experienced disruptive traffic booms from bots designed by AI startup Anthropic to scour the web ...

Artificial intelligence tech companies are refusing to abide by internet protocol when it comes to scraping data. Their ravenous scavenging behavior is upending the basic rules of the internet. On ...