Bots are overwhelming websites with their hunger for AI data
Bots harvesting content for AI companies have proliferated to the point that they're threatening digital collections of arts and culture.
Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAMs) say they're being overwhelmed by AI bots – web crawling scripts that visit websites and download data to be used for training AI models – according to a report issued on Tuesday by the GLAM-E Lab, which studies issues affecting GLAMs.
GLAM-E Lab is a joint initiative between the Centre for Science, Culture an...
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