Outlets like The Guardian and The New York Times are scrutinizing digital archives as potential backdoors for AI crawlers.

Amazon is blocking ChatGPT's AI shopping tools. Links to Amazon pages might not appear in a ChatGPT search. Amazon doesn't want AI bots cutting into its revenue. ChatGPT's new shopping research agent ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steve Weisman writes about white-collar crime. During the 2024 presidential election, then candidate Donald Trump responded to ...

Web infrastructure giant Cloudflare has launched a major update to the internet’s three-decade-old rulebook for web crawlers. The company has introduced its “Content Signals Policy,” a new extension ...

Most financial advisors have probably never heard of a "robots.txt" file, but Christopher Hensley, president and CEO of Houston First Financial Group, thinks it's time they learn. Processing Content ...

Media companies announced a new web protocol: RSL. RSL aims to put publishers back in the driver's seat. The RSL Collective will attempt to set pricing for content. AI companies are capturing as much ...

WASHINGTON — Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., the conservative firebrand who's clashed with Donald Trump and other GOP leaders, filed a discharge petition Tuesday to force a floor vote compelling the ...

Visual artists want to protect their work from non-consensual use by generative AI tools such as ChatGPT. But most of them do not have the technical know-how or control over the tools needed to do so.

In this example robots.txt file, Googlebot is allowed to crawl all URLs on the website, ChatGPT-User and GPTBot are disallowed from crawling any URLs, and all other crawlers are disallowed from ...

Perplexity was discovered to be actively bypassing blocks from websites to scrape content in 2024, and a new report shows that it has continued with increasing sophistication as the company defends ...

When the web was established several decades ago, it was built on a number of principles. Among them was a key, overarching standard dubbed “netiquette”: Do unto others as you’d want done unto you. It ...