Cloudflare data shows AI crawlers exploding, publishers blocking bots, and many platforms sending little traffic back.

Generative AI has upended this rough compromise. Cutting-edge models are trained on as much high-quality data as AI companies ...

Internet traffic is up, and so are bots — they make up 56.5% of that traffic. But not everyone wants all the bots to see what ...

ChatGPT maker OpenAI successfully won a stay of discovery concerning newer models of ChatGPT that post-date the versions already involved in the broad multi-district litigation underway in Manhattan ...

A new standard to protect content on the internet. RSL is supported by players such as publishers and the advertising ...

Publishers now have more comprehensive tools for managing automated content harvesting Most big AI providers scrape the open web, hoovering up content to improve their chatbots, which then compete ...

An open licensing standard that aims to make AI companies pay for the content they vacuum up across the web is now an official specification. Really Simple Licensing 1.0 — or RSL for short — gives ...

The open web is closing down for unwanted automated traffic A growing number of websites are taking steps to ban AI bot traffic so that their work isn't used as training data and their servers aren't ...

Google's Gary Illyes continues to warn SEO professionals and website owners about URL parameter crawl issues. Gary Illyes warns about URL parameter issues on LinkedIn. He advises using robots.txt to ...