Publishers won’t win AI by hiding from it. They’ll win by controlling access to the work that gives them authority. Media companies have gotten pretty good at blocking AI bots. They have been less ...

Cloudflare has rolled out a couple of new measures meant to keep AI bot crawlers at bay. To start with, every new domain customer that signs up with the company to manage their website traffic will ...

It’s no big secret that a lot of the internet traffic today consists out of automated requests, ranging from innocent bots like search engine indexers to data scraping bots for LLM and similar ...

Patreon is strengthening its defenses against AI scraping by working with Cloudflare to block bots that train AI models on ...

With all the talk about ChatGPT and other AI bots, did you know that there is an OpenAI ChatGPT bot and it respects the robots.txt protocol? So if you want, you can block OpenAI's ChatGPT bot from ...

While you want to make most content as easy as possible for Google to crawl, there are certain instances in which you'll want to block bots. For the most part, bots and spiders are relatively harmless ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

Many SEOs who do site audits commonly overlook security and bot traffic as part of their audits because it’s not widely understood by digital marketers that security events impact site performance and ...

Bots are tools, neither good nor bad. It’s how they’re used that makes them beneficial, benign, or malicious. Because they’ve been associated so much with the latter, “bot” has become something of a ...