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Websites ramp up defenses against costly AI bot traffic

Original: More and more sites are having to set up defenses from AI bots. It is costly to provide online services and they were no

Website operators are increasingly deploying anti-bot defenses as AI companies crawl online services at scale. Critics argue these sites were never built to absorb such traffic, and that the crawl load effectively functions like a global denial-of-service attack, shifting infrastructure costs onto publishers and AI firms' competitors. The debate highlights growing friction between content providers and AI developers over data collection.

Why now: Rising AI crawler traffic is forcing websites to pay for defenses, sparking fresh backlash against AI companies' data collection practices.

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• More and more sites are having to set up defenses from AI bots. It is costly to provide online services and they were not built for bots. One can say that the AI companies are performing a global denial of service attack, which incurs costs to all of their competitors, as well… · jon@vivaldi.net · 12

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