Cloudflare, one of the biggest network internet infrastructure companies in the world, has announced AI Labyrinth, a new tool to fight web-crawling bots that scrape sites for AI training data without ...

The volume of Internet traffic due to automated software — bots — has declined to its lowest point in at least six years, but the share of the traffic due to unwanted automated activity — "bad" bots — ...

Barracuda research reveals the extent of data scraping bots Not all bots are bad, but many extract huge amounts of data without permission These "gray bots" can be highly aggressive, report warns New ...

There's no denying ChatGPT and other generative AI models are a double-edged sword: While they can deliver great value in increasing business productivity and automation, they carry serious risks, ...

Web scraping is a software method used to extract information from websites. It often includes transforming unstructured website data into a database for analysis, or repurposing stolen content for ...

The amount of information on the Internet is only equaled by the number of rich resources in any field. As the size and complexity of data sets on the web have grown, collecting and storing this ...

In a nutshell: A recent report by Akamai estimates that 42 percent of overall web traffic is generated by bots, with 65 percent of these bots having clearly malicious intent. Akamai's study primarily ...

Rather than block web scrapers, Cloudflare invites them to trawl a web of useless ‘AI-generated nonsense.’ Rather than block web scrapers, Cloudflare invites them to trawl a web of useless ...