Outlets like The Guardian and The New York Times are scrutinizing digital archives as potential backdoors for AI crawlers.

AI models have a voracious appetite for data. Keeping up to date with information to present to users is a challenge. And so companies at the vanguard of AI appear to have hit on an answer: crawling ...

Most financial advisors have probably never heard of a "robots.txt" file, but Christopher Hensley, president and CEO of Houston First Financial Group, thinks it's time they learn. Processing Content ...

In this article, ExchangeWire research lead Mat Broughton takes a somewhat surrealist look at the house of cards underpinning AI data gathering, and what can be done to protect publishers. Like ...

Google’s SSP practices during the waterfall-to-header-bidding transition are the lawsuit gift that keeps giving. In addition to the DOJ trial (Google lost) and the Texas trial (which still hasn’t ...

Perplexity was discovered to be actively bypassing blocks from websites to scrape content in 2024, and a new report shows that it has continued with increasing sophistication as the company defends ...

When the web was established several decades ago, it was built on a number of principles. Among them was a key, overarching standard dubbed “netiquette”: Do unto others as you’d want done unto you. It ...

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The internet’s reliance on trust is being challenged by the rise of AI-powered answer engines employing stealthy crawling techniques. Cloudflare recently observed such behavior from Perplexity, an AI ...

A new report from Cloudflare claims that Perplexity has been scraping content from websites that have opted to block AI web scrapers. The company says that Perplexity's continued attempts to hide its ...