News publishers are building fences around their content in an effort to cut off crawlers that don’t pay for content.

Taking a bold and much-needed move to sanitise its virtual world, YouTube has officially declared a huge change in its ...

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Those executives had spotted the early signs of a trend that has since become clear: artificial intelligence is transforming ...

These AI systems are already endangering public health — offering false assurances, bad advice and fake credentials — while hiding behind regulatory loopholes.

The news: The internet infrastructure company Cloudflare has announced that it will start blocking AI bots from visiting websites it hosts by default. What bots?

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It has switched to blocking AI crawlers by default for its customers and is moving forward with a Pay Per Crawl program that lets customers charge AI companies to scrape their websites.

The fight over AI summaries is part of a larger struggle playing out in newsrooms figuring out where human editors still fit in.

More websites, including Wikipedia and academic archives, are grousing about AI freeloaders that siphon their information. They’re fighting back.

These AI systems are already endangering public health — offering false assurances, bad advice and fake credentials — while hiding behind regulatory loopholes.