Automated traffic now accounts for more than half of all web requests, according to Cloudflare, and the tools built to ...

Rise in accessible AI tools significantly lowered the barrier to entry for cyber attackers, enabling them to create and deploy malicious bots at scale For the first time in a decade, automated traffic ...

Experts are sounding the alarm over YouTube’s deepfake detection tool — a new safety feature that could allow Google to train its own AI bots with creators’ faces, according to a report. The tool ...

Six months ago, I wrote about the AI bots crisis facing publishers: Traffic is plummeting, unauthorized scraping is surging and the industry is scrambling to protect its assets. The problem of ...

Social bots are automated or semi-automated accounts that interact, post and replicate human behaviour across online social networks. Their presence spans marketing, political campaigning and the ...

Friday’s Adalytics report about ads being served en masse to known bots leaves plenty of unanswered questions. But they mainly boil down to this: How could so many different verification providers and ...

Large language model (LLM) crawlers are harvesting content at scale for training and redistribution, the result often being IP theft, SEO dilution and lost revenue. Yet 68% of media and publishing ...

As a tech journalist who writes and edits daily, AI-generated content is a real concern for me. Will AI eventually render me useless in the industry I’ve given years of my life to by replacing ...