Cloudflare recently announced a new "pay-per-crawl" system aimed at pushing back against AI companies that continue to scrape the open web without paying a cent. According ...

The head of Community Notes explains the logic behind the move.

By blocking AI bots and enabling micropayments for access, Cloudflare aims to help content creators protect and monetize their content.

More websites, including Wikipedia and academic archives, are grousing about AI freeloaders that siphon their information.

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

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has said that the platform is being spammed by AI bots, and is now in “an arms race” to detect and block these fake posts.

More people are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) bots and search functions for news coverage or to verify information they suspect may be false, according to a new study.

This AI Bot Is Replacing Google for Millions of People AI bots are devouring the internet’s content faster than ever, and most sites don’t even realize it’s happening.

People are replacing Google search with artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, a major shift that has unleashed a new kind of bot loose on the web. To offer users a tidy AI summary instead of ...

Meta's AI personas aren't your typical spam bots - they are powered by increasingly sophisticated language models that can understand context, maintain consistent personas and engage in nuanced ...

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says that Reddit's human-led communities are what set the company apart. AI bots, however, are threatening that advantage by taking over forums and comments. Reddit has ...

A swarm of AI bots is making traffic surge, raising costs for website owners. If you can't block them, send them on a wild (and digital) goose chase.