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- Bots are overwhelming websites with their hunger for AI data
Twenty-seven of the 39 respondents experiencing an increase in traffic attributed it to AI training data bots, with an additional seven believing that bots could be contributing to the traffic " The surge in bots that gather data for AI training, the report says, often went unnoticed until it became so bad that it knocked online collections
- Increased Traffic from Web-Scraping AI Bots is Hard to Monetize
Although news publishers and other websites can implement blockers to prevent various AI bots from scraping their content, TollBit found that more than 26 million AI scrapes bypassed those blockers in March alone Some AI companies claim bots for AI agents don't need to follow bot instructions because they are acting on behalf of a user
- Web-scraping AI bots cause disruption for scientific . . . - Nature
Much of the bot traffic comes from anonymized IP addresses, and the sudden increase has led many website owners to suspect that these web-scrapers are gathering data to train generative artificial
- Cloudflares AI Audit: Combatting Unwanted AI Bot Traffic . . .
Launched into beta on 23 September, and generally available to Cloudflare customers, AI Audit gives site owners new visibility into the activities of AI bots scraping their sites They can see which AI model providers are accessing their content and decide whether to allow or block them
- 80% of Web Traffic Is Bots — The Hidden Cost of AI Scraping
OpenAI GPT bots now make up 13% of total web traffic, rising from 0% in 2023 Googlebot search traffic has dropped to just 8%, indicating a shift from traditional search engine indexing to AI-driven data collection
- AI Bots Reshaping Web Traffic: Security Implications and . . .
The rise of AI-powered bots is transforming how users interact with the web, with significant consequences for cybersecurity, content monetization, and data ownership Recent data from TollBit indicates a 40% decline in traditional search traffic as users migrate to AI chatbots like ChatGPT 1
- New Report Shows AI Chatbots and Search Engines Are Unable to . . .
The report also found that AI scraping increased by 117% between Q3 and Q4 of 2024, while the average number of scrapers from AI bots per website in the fourth quarter of 2024 was 2 million 1 89 million were also hidden AI scrapers
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