Bots are overwhelming websites with their hunger for AI data
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AI data harvesting bots are overwhelming cultural institutions' digital collections, threatening online access and increasing costs. A GLAM-E Lab survey of 43 organizations reveals widespread concern about aggressive content scraping, with 27 respondents attributing traffic spikes to AI training bots. Some collections have even been knocked offline by the surge in bot activity, prompting calls for more responsible data gathering practices from AI companies.
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