AI bot blitzkrieg

Publishers report AI companies are scraping their sites and consuming massive bandwidth but sending little traffic back.

Websites’ robot.txt files are being ignored by AI crawlers (Credit: ChatGPT)

Websites are buckling under an onslaught of AI crawler bots from OpenAI and other companies, with reports of massive traffic surges but little engagement from human readers, reports Press Gazette. This bot blitzkrieg is costing money, consuming bandwidth, and frustrating publis…