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  1. #Reuters and #Time are #blocking all #AIbots by default and creating whitelists of approved bots to access their content. This approach aims to create friction for unauthorised scraping, incentivising companies to negotiate licensing agreements. While not foolproof, this method can slow down unauthorised scrapers and increase the cost of scraping, ultimately protecting the value of publishers’ content. digiday.com/media/reuters-and- #tech #media #news

  2. #Reuters and #Time are #blocking all #AIbots by default and creating whitelists of approved bots to access their content. This approach aims to create friction for unauthorised scraping, incentivising companies to negotiate licensing agreements. While not foolproof, this method can slow down unauthorised scrapers and increase the cost of scraping, ultimately protecting the value of publishers’ content. digiday.com/media/reuters-and- #tech #media #news

  3. #Bot #WebTraffic has overtaken human web traffic, data shows

    #Cloudflare says 57.4% of requests to a selection of websites it hosts are now #AutomatedBot requests, while 42.6% are human-generated.

    By Samantha Elkins
    June 4, 2026, 6:27 PM EDT

    "Website traffic from #AI agents and #bots has eclipsed its human-generated counterpart for the first time, according to Cloudflare, an earlier-than-expected milestone that speaks to AI’s rapid advance and impact.

    " 'Welp, that happened faster than I predicted,' #MatthewPrince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare, one of the largest internet hosting services, wrote Thursday on X.

    “Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027,” he continued, “but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet’s history.”

    "The rise is attributed to the continued proliferation of AI agents, largely autonomous programs that use tools that collaborate with high-level programs and data, with little human feedback.

    "Cloudflare, which has a feature to display bot versus human-generated search requests, says 57.4% of requests are now initiated by bots, compared with 42.6% coming from humans.

    "Humans might browse five websites before making a purchase, however, while an AI service might browse 5,000 websites."

    Read more:
    nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/bot

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/Uwjne

    #WebBots #AIBots #AIAgents #HumanWebTraffic #BotTraffic
    #BigData #BigTech is #OutOfControl !

  4. #Bot #WebTraffic has overtaken human web traffic, data shows

    #Cloudflare says 57.4% of requests to a selection of websites it hosts are now #AutomatedBot requests, while 42.6% are human-generated.

    By Samantha Elkins
    June 4, 2026, 6:27 PM EDT

    "Website traffic from #AI agents and #bots has eclipsed its human-generated counterpart for the first time, according to Cloudflare, an earlier-than-expected milestone that speaks to AI’s rapid advance and impact.

    " 'Welp, that happened faster than I predicted,' #MatthewPrince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare, one of the largest internet hosting services, wrote Thursday on X.

    “Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027,” he continued, “but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet’s history.”

    "The rise is attributed to the continued proliferation of AI agents, largely autonomous programs that use tools that collaborate with high-level programs and data, with little human feedback.

    "Cloudflare, which has a feature to display bot versus human-generated search requests, says 57.4% of requests are now initiated by bots, compared with 42.6% coming from humans.

    "Humans might browse five websites before making a purchase, however, while an AI service might browse 5,000 websites."

    Read more:
    nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/bot

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/Uwjne

    #WebBots #AIBots #AIAgents #HumanWebTraffic #BotTraffic
    #BigData #BigTech is #OutOfControl !

  5. Attaque crawlers IA en cours sur le serveur gayfr.online : 98% des challenges #Anubis sont rejetés (donc sont des bots), plus de 800 000 requêtes sur la semaine.

    Du coup aucun impact sur les performances ni la disponibilité. Il reste juste un bot vietnamien malin qui passe sous les radars et interroge le service RSS avec plusieurs secondes ou minutes d'intervalle. Pas gênant mais je lui réglerai son compte.

    #gayfr #IA #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #IntelligenceArtificielle #AICrawlers #AIBots

  6. FYI: Half of users can't spot AI bots - Surfshark's game reveals why: Surfshark's Bot or Not game, tested with 710 players, reveals that nearly half of users cannot identify AI bots, with Facebook users and over-40s faring worst. ppc.land/half-of-users-cant-sp #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIBots #TechTrends #UserExperience

  7. FYI: Half of users can't spot AI bots - Surfshark's game reveals why: Surfshark's Bot or Not game, tested with 710 players, reveals that nearly half of users cannot identify AI bots, with Facebook users and over-40s faring worst. ppc.land/half-of-users-cant-sp #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIBots #TechTrends #UserExperience

  8. AI BOT TRAFFIC SURGES, PUBLISHERS NAVIGATE TURBULENT WATERS

    AI bots are visiting websites much more. This makes it hard for publishers to know who is real and affects their money. What happens next?

    #AIBots, #DigitalPublishing, #WebTraffic, #ContentCreation, #PublisherChallenges

    newsletter.tf/ai-bot-traffic-s

  9. I appreciate the wise minds that have jumped into my thread over the past 24 hours.

    It's amazing to see the variety of tools and attitudes towards the problem. The more I talk it through and hear from other folks, the more I feel that shutting the door is ultimately a self-own. If I want humans to see my website, I need to focus on making that as simple and unfettered as possible.

    I have lots of things I could be doing better for my fellow humans. The trackers from Google and FB alone are my major concern for me. There is also a trade off between being searchable at all, versus blocking the scrapers and removing the trackers.

    Any tech "solution" is ultimately imperfect. I wish this was a simpler equation. It does not feel like a "nuance" situation, rather a "you get screwed either way" situation.

    #Scrapers #AIbots #WebHosting
  10. I appreciate the wise minds that have jumped into my thread over the past 24 hours.

    It's amazing to see the variety of tools and attitudes towards the problem. The more I talk it through and hear from other folks, the more I feel that shutting the door is ultimately a self-own. If I want humans to see my website, I need to focus on making that as simple and unfettered as possible.

    I have lots of things I could be doing better for my fellow humans. The trackers from Google and FB alone are my major concern for me. There is also a trade off between being searchable at all, versus blocking the scrapers and removing the trackers.

    Any tech "solution" is ultimately imperfect. I wish this was a simpler equation. It does not feel like a "nuance" situation, rather a "you get screwed either way" situation.

    #Scrapers #AIbots #WebHosting
  11. IAB Tech Lab opens bot management guidance for public comment: IAB Tech Lab releases AI bot and crawler management guidance for public comment, supporting CoMP API adoption and sustainable content marketplace development. ppc.land/iab-tech-lab-opens-bo #IABTechLab #BotManagement #AIBots #CrawlerManagement #CoMPAPI

  12. 🔗 UrlRoulette URL of the Day #540! 🌟

    knock-knock.net
    Knock-Knock.net is a live honeypot dashboard showing real-time bot attacks.

    This is our URL of the day 👉 urlroulette.net/ui/35rMZy4cjVQn 🚀

    #aibots

  13. OMG. Je viens de découvrir le code d’erreur HTTP 418.

    Alors même que je viens de prendre conscience de la quantité de bots IA qui visitent ma plateforme d’accès au fediverse, et de décider de m’attaquer au problème.

    Je pense que n’ai pas le choix, je vais devoir faire en sorte de renvoyer cette erreur à tous ces bots un peu trop curieux.

    #AdminEnCarton #Humour #ServeurWeb #Fediverse #AIBots #BotsIA #Bots
  14. Ah yes, the classic tale of heroic developers bravely fighting off AI bots with the mighty –author flag ⚔️, as if AI cares about your precious #GitHub repo 😂. Meanwhile, #open-source is apparently in its death throes, spiraling into the abyss because of spammy contributions! 😱 Surely, humanity will never recover...
    archestra.ai/blog/only-respons #heroicdevelopers #AIbots #contributions #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated

  15. Ah yes, the classic tale of heroic developers bravely fighting off AI bots with the mighty –author flag ⚔️, as if AI cares about your precious #GitHub repo 😂. Meanwhile, #open-source is apparently in its death throes, spiraling into the abyss because of spammy contributions! 😱 Surely, humanity will never recover...
    archestra.ai/blog/only-respons #heroicdevelopers #AIbots #contributions #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated

  16. 🇬🇧 Protect Mastodon against AI bots with Anubis

    I wrote a complete guide for Fediverse admins on how to protect against AI bots: blogs.gayfr.social/barbapulpe/

    To protect our users and our servers against those rogue robots.

    Please boost!

    #IA #AI #AICrawlers #AIBots #Anubis #Mastodon #MastoAdmin #MastodonAdmin #ArtificialIntelligence #IntelligenceArtificielle

  17. 🇬🇧 Protect Mastodon against AI bots with Anubis

    I wrote a complete guide for Fediverse admins on how to protect against AI bots: blogs.gayfr.social/barbapulpe/

    To protect our users and our servers against those rogue robots.

    Please boost!

    #IA #AI #AICrawlers #AIBots #Anubis #Mastodon #MastoAdmin #MastodonAdmin #ArtificialIntelligence #IntelligenceArtificielle

  18. 🇫🇷 Protéger Mastodon contre les bots IA avec Anubis

    J'ai écrit un guide complet pour les administrateurs du fédiverse sur comment se protéger contre les bots IA : blogs.gayfr.social/barbapulpe/

    Pour protéger nos utilisateurs et nos serveurs contre ces robots voyous.

    N'hésitez pas à faire tourner !

    #IA #AI #AICrawlers #AIBots #Anubis #Mastodon #MastoAdmin #MastodonAdmin #ArtificialIntelligence #IntelligenceArtificielle

  19. 🇫🇷 Protéger Mastodon contre les bots IA avec Anubis

    J'ai écrit un guide complet pour les administrateurs du fédiverse sur comment se protéger contre les bots IA : blogs.gayfr.social/barbapulpe/

    Pour protéger nos utilisateurs et nos serveurs contre ces robots voyous.

    N'hésitez pas à faire tourner !

    #IA #AI #AICrawlers #AIBots #Anubis #Mastodon #MastoAdmin #MastodonAdmin #ArtificialIntelligence #IntelligenceArtificielle

  20. C'est assez rigolo, les bots IA se calment le week-end, on passe de >90% en semaine à 70% "seulement" en fin de semaine...

    #gayfr #IA #AI #AIBots #AICrawlers

  21. C'est assez rigolo, les bots IA se calment le week-end, on passe de >90% en semaine à 70% "seulement" en fin de semaine...

    #gayfr #IA #AI #AIBots #AICrawlers

  22. 🇬🇧 If you like numbers, our dashboard lets you view all our sites’ statistics in real time.

    status.gayfr.social
    status.gayfr.online

    I’ve added new metrics related to Anubis, which protects us against AI bots. So at the bottom, you’ll see the number of bots blocked on sight (red), the number of visits that need to verify the “I’m not a robot” page (orange), the percentage that succeed (meaning they aren’t bots, in yellow), and finally the number of accepted human visits (green).

    What’s interesting is that the percentage of bots varies throughout the week but remains very high (between 65% and 96% depending on the time). That’s huge! They attack in swarms, just like a pain in the ass…

    That justifies the efforts made to protect against them.

    #gayfr #Anubis #IA #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Bots #AIBots #AICrawlers

  23. 🇬🇧 If you like numbers, our dashboard lets you view all our sites’ statistics in real time.

    status.gayfr.social
    status.gayfr.online

    I’ve added new metrics related to Anubis, which protects us against AI bots. So at the bottom, you’ll see the number of bots blocked on sight (red), the number of visits that need to verify the “I’m not a robot” page (orange), the percentage that succeed (meaning they aren’t bots, in yellow), and finally the number of accepted human visits (green).

    What’s interesting is that the percentage of bots varies throughout the week but remains very high (between 65% and 96% depending on the time). That’s huge! They attack in swarms, just like a pain in the ass…

    That justifies the efforts made to protect against them.

    #gayfr #Anubis #IA #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Bots #AIBots #AICrawlers

  24. 🇫🇷 Si vous aimez les chiffres, notre tableau de bord vous permet de voir toutes les statistiques de nos sites en temps réel.

    status.gayfr.social
    status.gayfr.online

    J'ai rajouté les nouveaux indicateurs relatifs à Anubis qui nous protège contre les bots IA. Ainsi à la fin vous verrez le nombre de bots bloqués à vue (rouge), le nombre de visites qui doivent valider la page "vous n'êtes pas un robot" (orange), le pourcentage qui réussissent (donc ne sont pas des bots, en jaune) et enfin le nombre de visites humaines acceptées (vert).

    Ce qui est intéressant c'est que le % de bots varie dans la semaine mais reste très important (entre 65% et 96% selon les moments). C'est énorme ! Ils attaquent en escadrille, comme les emmerdes...

    Ça justifie les efforts faits pour s'en protéger.

    #gayfr #Anubis #IA #AI #IntelligenceArtificielle #ArtificialIntelligence #Bots #AIBots #AICrawlers

  25. 🇫🇷 Si vous aimez les chiffres, notre tableau de bord vous permet de voir toutes les statistiques de nos sites en temps réel.

    status.gayfr.social
    status.gayfr.online

    J'ai rajouté les nouveaux indicateurs relatifs à Anubis qui nous protège contre les bots IA. Ainsi à la fin vous verrez le nombre de bots bloqués à vue (rouge), le nombre de visites qui doivent valider la page "vous n'êtes pas un robot" (orange), le pourcentage qui réussissent (donc ne sont pas des bots, en jaune) et enfin le nombre de visites humaines acceptées (vert).

    Ce qui est intéressant c'est que le % de bots varie dans la semaine mais reste très important (entre 65% et 96% selon les moments). C'est énorme ! Ils attaquent en escadrille, comme les emmerdes...

    Ça justifie les efforts faits pour s'en protéger.

    #gayfr #Anubis #IA #AI #IntelligenceArtificielle #ArtificialIntelligence #Bots #AIBots #AICrawlers

  26. “The Big Tech group #META is building #AgenticTools for its more than 3bn users, according to people familiar with the matter, including an advanced digital assistant that will be powered by its new #MuseSpark #AIModel.
    One person familiar with the project said the #assistant was being trialled internally by a group of staff. Another insider said the goal was to develop a #product similar to #OpenClaw, which allows users to create #AIBots known as #agents to autonomously complete #tasks on their behalf.

    Meta wanted to allow users to share highly #sensitive #information, such as health and financial #data, with its assistants if they so choose”

    🍿 #ArtificialIntelligence <archive.md/nKnao> / (paywall) <ft.com/content/5b48360c-53f2-4>

  27. “The Big Tech group #META is building #AgenticTools for its more than 3bn users, according to people familiar with the matter, including an advanced digital assistant that will be powered by its new #MuseSpark #AIModel.
    One person familiar with the project said the #assistant was being trialled internally by a group of staff. Another insider said the goal was to develop a #product similar to #OpenClaw, which allows users to create #AIBots known as #agents to autonomously complete #tasks on their behalf.

    Meta wanted to allow users to share highly #sensitive #information, such as health and financial #data, with its assistants if they so choose”

    🍿 #ArtificialIntelligence <archive.md/nKnao> / (paywall) <ft.com/content/5b48360c-53f2-4>

  28. Est-ce que les bots #IA sont une réalité ? Voici les chiffres du jour pour les sites GayFR.Online...

    Sur une semaine, 51 700 robots bloqués immédiatement.

    Sur la même semaine, 221 000 visites ont eu la page de vérification Anubis.

    Sur celles-ci, seulement 4% ont passé la validation.

    Sur la même semaine, 18 200 visites sont acceptées et identifiées comme humaines (ni robots ni fédération).

    Ça fait quand même un paquets de bots et 96% (en moyenne sur les dernières 24 h) qui n’ont pas passé la validation. Sachant que ce chiffre varie chaque jour.

    Quel gaspillage de ressources ! Quelle ampleur de tentative de vols de contenus ! Quelle empreinte environnementale ! C’est atterrant.

    #AI #AIBots #ArtificialIntelligence #IntelligenceArtificielle #Anubis

  29. Est-ce que les bots #IA sont une réalité ? Voici les chiffres du jour pour les sites GayFR.Online...

    Sur une semaine, 51 700 robots bloqués immédiatement.

    Sur la même semaine, 221 000 visites ont eu la page de vérification Anubis.

    Sur celles-ci, seulement 4% ont passé la validation.

    Sur la même semaine, 18 200 visites sont acceptées et identifiées comme humaines (ni robots ni fédération).

    Ça fait quand même un paquets de bots et 96% (en moyenne sur les dernières 24 h) qui n’ont pas passé la validation. Sachant que ce chiffre varie chaque jour.

    Quel gaspillage de ressources ! Quelle ampleur de tentative de vols de contenus ! Quelle empreinte environnementale ! C’est atterrant.

    #AI #AIBots #ArtificialIntelligence #IntelligenceArtificielle #Anubis

  30. 🔶Meet the Team!
    Brendan O'Connell, DOAJ’s Platform Manager
    With a unique background as both a librarian and a software engineer, Brendan guides development priorities while balancing the needs of all DOAJ users #AIBots #DiamondOA #OpenInfrastructure #SocialJustice
    🔗 blog.doaj.org/2026/04/09/meet-

  31. 🔶Meet the Team!
    Brendan O'Connell, DOAJ’s Platform Manager
    With a unique background as both a librarian and a software engineer, Brendan guides development priorities while balancing the needs of all DOAJ users #AIBots #DiamondOA #OpenInfrastructure #SocialJustice
    🔗 blog.doaj.org/2026/04/09/meet-

  32. Nos statistiques des consultations hebdomadaires pour nos deux serveurs principaux.

    Tout vous paraît normal pour des serveurs francophones ?

    Cherchez l’IA...

    #IA #AI #AICrawlers #AIBots

  33. Nos statistiques des consultations hebdomadaires pour nos deux serveurs principaux.

    Tout vous paraît normal pour des serveurs francophones ?

    Cherchez l’IA...

    #IA #AI #AICrawlers #AIBots

  34. ICYMI: Cloudflare and ETH Zurich say AI bots are breaking the web's cache layer: Cloudflare data shows AI crawlers cause cache miss surges affecting human users, with 32% of network traffic automated and new cache architectures proposed. ppc.land/cloudflare-and-eth-zu #Cloudflare #ETHZurich #ArtificialIntelligence #AIBots #WebDevelopment

  35. ICYMI: Cloudflare and ETH Zurich say AI bots are breaking the web's cache layer: Cloudflare data shows AI crawlers cause cache miss surges affecting human users, with 32% of network traffic automated and new cache architectures proposed. ppc.land/cloudflare-and-eth-zu #Cloudflare #ETHZurich #ArtificialIntelligence #AIBots #WebDevelopment

  36. Cloudflare and ETH Zurich say AI bots are breaking the web's cache layer: Cloudflare data shows AI crawlers cause cache miss surges affecting human users, with 32% of network traffic automated and new cache architectures proposed. ppc.land/cloudflare-and-eth-zu #Cloudflare #ArtificialIntelligence #AIBots #WebTechnology #Networking

  37. Cloudflare and ETH Zurich say AI bots are breaking the web's cache layer: Cloudflare data shows AI crawlers cause cache miss surges affecting human users, with 32% of network traffic automated and new cache architectures proposed. ppc.land/cloudflare-and-eth-zu #Cloudflare #ArtificialIntelligence #AIBots #WebTechnology #Networking

  38. AI crawlers are becoming a new class of automated traffic.

    They:
    – Ignore robots.txt
    – Continuously scrape content
    – Consume bandwidth and resources

    This isn’t just about visibility; it’s about control.

    A proactive approach (like blocklists) helps reduce unwanted load and protect your data.

    Read more:
    crowdsec.net/blog/protect-agai

    #CyberSecurity #AIbots #Infosec #Privacy

  39. AI crawlers are becoming a new class of automated traffic.

    They:
    – Ignore robots.txt
    – Continuously scrape content
    – Consume bandwidth and resources

    This isn’t just about visibility; it’s about control.

    A proactive approach (like blocklists) helps reduce unwanted load and protect your data.

    Read more:
    crowdsec.net/blog/protect-agai

    #CyberSecurity #AIbots #Infosec #Privacy

  40. Sigh. The #AIbots are running amok again. I need to update my network protections on opencontext.org

    If there was any genuine "I" in "AI", the bots would skip the slow and costly random crawl of our website. If they really wanted gobs of #archaeology data describing random broken bits of pottery and sheep/goat bones, they should be smart enough to do a simple bulk download of our #opendata.

    This #aibubble can't burst fast enough.

  41. Our instance admins have published their #aibots policy

  42. Our instance admins have published their #aibots policy

  43. I received an e-mail from openai that they changed my e-mail preferences for me. I was a bit surprised, but it seems that I actually did create a free account in 2022 that I never used.
    I proceeded to cancel the account and got the cloudflare challenge when logging in.
    I wonder if they block themselves, seeing that they operate one of the most malicious and destructive botnets around.
    #ai #openai #cloudflare #bots #aibots #maliciousbots

  44. I received an e-mail from openai that they changed my e-mail preferences for me. I was a bit surprised, but it seems that I actually did create a free account in 2022 that I never used.
    I proceeded to cancel the account and got the cloudflare challenge when logging in.
    I wonder if they block themselves, seeing that they operate one of the most malicious and destructive botnets around.
    #ai #openai #cloudflare #bots #aibots #maliciousbots

  45. Gerade über was gestolpert, ich lass das hier einfach mal fallen: youtube.com/watch?v=ps7kqEXkwEs

    Ich frage mich ob das wirklich alles so gut ist, es ist mir aber auch klar, dass ist nicht mehr aufzuhalten.

    #ai #aibots #homeai

  46. ICYMI: AI bots crawl retail sites 198x more than Google, new report warns: AI bots crawl retail sites 198x more per visit than Google, bot traffic rose 5.4x in 2025, and 80% of websites are exposed to agent spoofing, per new research. ppc.land/ai-bots-crawl-retail- #AIBots #RetailTraffic #DigitalMarketing #SEO #BotTraffic

  47. Today I saw someone call AI bots reavers. An apt description and it means there is at least one other Firefly fan around.
    #Ai #AIbots #firefly #sciencefiction #foxsucks

  48. Recording of the dealing with #AIbots webinars from COAR is now available coar-repositories.org/what-we-. You can also check their dedicated site for new resources for repository managers at dealing-with-bots.coar-reposit