The web is tired of getting harvested for chatbots.

He pointed out that Cloudflare's latest solution has helped them block unauthorized AI web crawlers, prompting several AI companies to proactively contact People to explore potent ...

People Inc. CEO Neil Vogel accuses Google of being an 'intentional bad actor' for using a unified crawler to scrape content ...

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Cloudflare's crawl-to-refer ratio is a solid guide to how much tech companies are taking from the web, and how much they're ...

The core idea of the RSL agreement is to replace the traditional robots.txt file, which only provides simple instructions to either 'allow' or 'disallow' crawlers access. With RSL, publishers can set ...

A new licensing standard aims to let web publishers set the terms of how AI system developers use their work. On Wednesday, major brands like Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Quora, and People Inc. announced ...

The internet's new standard, RSL, is a clever fix for a complex problem, and it just might give human creators a fighting chance in the AI economy.

"It's clear from the preceding sentence that we're referring to 'open-web display advertising' and not the open web as a ...

According to the Database of AI Litigation maintained by George Washington University’s Ethical Tech Initiative, the United States alone now sees over 250 lawsuits, many of which allege copyright ...

Blocking AI bots is an important first step towards an open web licensing marketplace, but web publishers will still need AI companies (especially Google) to participate in the marketplace as buyers.

Enterprise AI projects fail when web scrapers deliver messy data. Learn how to evaluate web scraper technology for reliable, ...