In the era of driven artificial intelligence, the demand for high-quality data by large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3 and BERT is increasing. However, manually sorting this data from the web is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive but also often difficult to scale. This poses significant challenges for developers, especially when large amounts of data are required. Traditional web crawlers and data scraping tools have limited capabilities in extracting structured data; although they can collect webpage data, they often cannot format it in a style suitable for LLM processing.

Apple encountered website blocking challenges when launching its AI features and needs to negotiate licensing agreements with major sites. Google, leveraging its market influence, is able to pressure publishers to allow AI access to content, whereas Apple faces more website blocks on its AI crawler, Applebot-Extended. 7% of websites have chosen to block this crawler, with data showing that 294 major websites have restricted access. OpenAI also faces similar challenges, with a higher blocking rate for its crawler. Google has strengthened its market position by combining AI summaries with traditional web scraping.

Recently, an investigation revealed that hundreds of websites attempted to block the AI company Anthropic from scraping their content, but due to outdated directives, they ended up blocking the wrong bots. This phenomenon highlights the challenges website owners face in coping with the ever-evolving ecosystem of AI crawlers.

Anthropic's ClaudeBot web crawler frequently accessed the iFixit website within 24 hours, allegedly violating terms of use by unauthorized content usage and consuming development resources. iFixit has added a crawl-delay extension in robots.txt to limit crawler access. This incident also affected other websites, such as Read the Docs and Freelancer.com. AI companies like OpenAI refuse crawler access through robots.txt.

Cloudflare provided website hosting customers with a method on Wednesday to block AI robots from scraping website content and using data to train machine learning models without permission. It is based on the customers' dislike of AI robots and the company's statement that it aims to help protect content creators' safety on the internet.Image Source Note: The image was generated by AI, and the image is authorized by the service provider Midjourney "We have clearly heard that customers do not wan

A study found that nearly half of popular news websites block OpenAI crawlers. Traditional print media websites are more likely to block OpenAI crawlers. New AI models may experience degradation when trained using previous models. AI crawlers are used to collect data for training language models. News organizations in Northern Hemisphere countries are more inclined to block AI crawlers.

A study by Reuters found that 48% of popular news websites block OpenAI crawlers. The issue of using copyrighted materials by artificial intelligence divides media into traditional print publications, television and radio broadcasters, and digital media. Some websites block Google and OpenAI crawlers, with northern hemisphere news media more likely to stop AI crawlers.

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An increasing number of media publishers are starting to block AI crawlers from accessing content. Direqt sees an opportunity in developing AI chatbots for instant messaging applications. These chatbots help publishers directly engage with readers and enhance content participation. Direqt is collaborating with companies like OpenAI to provide generative AI experiences for publishers. These chatbots can generate an average click-through rate of 24.16%, bringing direct traffic to publishers.

Reddit may block Google's and Bing's search crawlers, potentially severing ties with Google. Reddit requires users to log in to read content. The Washington Post corrected its report about Reddit. Over 535 news organizations have chosen to block crawling of their content.

🛡️ Artists use the Kudurru tool to fight against AI web crawlers by sending false images to protect their works. 🌐 Kudurru is web-based and blocks web crawlers or sends misleading images. 🔒 Solutions are limited, calling for government intervention to ensure that AI training does not misuse artists' works.

News media such as The New York Times, CNN, and Reuters have started to block OpenAI's GPTBot web crawler, restricting it from accessing their content. GPTBot may scan web page content to help improve OpenAI's AI models, such as ChatGPT. The media is concerned about their content being used for AI training, but Google suggests that media content can be automatically accessed unless they choose to opt-out.

The New York Times has blocked OpenAI's web crawler GPTBot. OpenAI is unable to use The New York Times' content to train its AI models. The New York Times is considering legal action against OpenAI.

OpenAI has released guidelines for web crawlers, prompting websites to bolster their defenses. OpenAI's web crawler GPTBot may have been lurking on the internet for some time, raising concerns about its data collection practices. Website owners can disallow GPTBot's access via the robots.txt file, but not all crawlers adhere to these rules.

OpenAI has unveiled their 'official crawler' GPTBot, which is used to train AI models like GPT-4 and GPT-5. This allows website owners to restrict its crawling of content as needed, thereby improving the accuracy and safety of AI models.