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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>SOME news publishers have embraced the rapid rise of AI by retooling strategies to chase citations instead of clicks and even reaching licensing agreements with AI companies to use their content.<\/p>\n

However, others have maintained their conviction that AI Web scraping is a violation of copyright and a threat to journalism.<\/p>\n

With new weapons emerging to defend their content from AI, some publishers are choosing to fight back.<\/p>\n

The current state of AI Web scraping<\/p>\n

Despite obtaining content from willing publishers, AI bots continue to \u201cscrape\u201d other Web content without permission.<\/p>\n

Since the 1990s, that permission has been relayed by a Web site\u2019s robots.txt file \u2014 the gatekeeper informing hungry Web site crawlers what content is fair game or off-limits.<\/p>\n

But the robots.txt file is more of a courteous suggestion than an enforceable boundary.<\/p>\n

Bryan Becker of Human Security offered further explanation to Press Gazette: \u201cRobots.txt has no enforcement mechanism. It\u2019s a sign that says \u2018please do not come in if you\u2019re one of these things\u2019 and there\u2019s nothing there to stop you. It\u2019s just always been a standard of the Internet to respect it.<\/p>\n

\u201cCompanies the size of Google, they respect it because they have the eyes of the world on them, but if you\u2019re just building a scraper, it\u2019d almost be more work for you to respect it than to ignore it because you\u2019d have to make extra code to check it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The rise of third-party Web scrapers<\/p>\n

Publishers opting to block AI companies from visiting their Web sites altogether have only given rise to third-party content-scrapers, \u201cwhich openly boast about how they can get through paywalls, effectively steal content to order, allowing AI companies to answer \u2018live\u2019 news queries with stolen information from publishers,\u201d the Press Gazette article noted.<\/p>\n

Press Gazette cites ample evidence of third-party bots scraping reputable sources \u2014 such as AI search engine Perplexity successfully replicating a Wired article that was behind a robots.txt file (Perplexity later updated its policies to respect robots.txt).<\/p>\n

The Press Gazette itself is using third-party scrapers to access paywalled content on the Financial Times Web site.<\/p>\n

Additionally, \u201cin off-the-record conversations with major newspaper publishers in the UK, experts confirmed that third-party scrapers are an increasing issue,\u201d according to the article.<\/p>\n

How AI Web scraping hurts publishers<\/p>\n

The toll AI is taking on publishers is significant \u2014 and measurable.<\/p>\n

For some, it\u2019s a matter of declining Web traffic. Toshit Panigrahi, CEO of Tollbit, told Press Gazette that a popular sports Web site had \u201c13 million crawlers from AI companies\u201d that resulted in \u201cjust 600 site visits\u201d.<\/p>\n

For others, it\u2019s rising bandwidth. ComputerWorld reported Wikipedia experienced \u201ca 50% increase in the bandwidth consumed since January 2024,\u201d a jump the Wikimedia Foundation attributes to \u201cautomated programmes that scrape the Wikimedia Commons image catalouge of openly licensed images to feed images to AI models.\u201d<\/p>\n

This sizable increase in bandwidth has forced Wikipedia\u2019s Site Reliability team into a state of perpetual war against AI scrapers.<\/p>\n

The mounting resistance against AI scrapers<\/p>\n

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)\u2019s AI Preference Working Group (AIPREF) is one of the largest and most influential allies in the AI resistance.<\/p>\n

As reported by ComputerWorld, the principal objective of AIPREF is to \u201ccontain AI scrapers\u201d through two interrelated mechanisms:<\/p>\n

Clear preferences: First, AIPREF seeks to establish \u201ca common vocabulary to express authors\u2019 and publishers\u2019 preferences regarding use of their content for AI training and related tasks.\u201d<\/p>\n

New and improved boundaries: Then, AIPREF \u201cwill develop a \u2018means of attaching that vocabulary to content on the Internet, either by embedding it in the content or by formats similar to robots.txt, and a standard mechanism to reconcile multiple expressions of preferences\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ultimate idea here is to transform the \u201cplease don\u2019t\u201d of current robots.txt files into a \u201cthis is forbidden\u201d hard line, giving publishers a clear say in what AI can and cannot mine for content.<\/p>\n

However, without real regulation, legal repercussions, or a way of enforcing these restrictions, the best AIPREF can do is clarify its preferences and hope AI companies respect publishers\u2019 explicit wishes.<\/p>\n

Gloves off<\/p>\n

But for those on the frontlines of the fight, the promise of new protocols and a hope for AI compliance is not enough. Increasingly, publishers are fighting back with emerging countermeasures.<\/p>\n

AI tarpits: A cybersecurity tactic known as tarpitting has been drafted into the fight against AI by tenacious developers.<\/p>\n

One such developer explained to Ars Technica how his AI tarpit, Nepenthes, works by \u201ctrapping AI crawlers and sending them down an \u2018infinite maze\u2019 of static files with no exit links, where they \u2018get stuck\u2019 and \u2018thrash around\u2019 for months.\u201d Satisfying though this tactic may be, ComputerWorld warns that sophisticated AI scrapers can successfully avoid tarpits and worse, \u201ceven when they work, tarpits also risk consuming host processor resources.\u201d<\/p>\n

Poisoning: If you do have the spare processing power to set up a successful tarpit, it can afford a rare opportunity to go on the offensive.<\/p>\n

As explained in the Ars Technica article, trapped AI scrapers \u201ccan be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models.\u201d<\/p>\n

Proof of work: Another emerging defense against AI is proof of work challenges like Anubis, described by The Register as \u201ca sort of CAPTCHA test, but flipped: Instead of checking visitors are human, it aims to make Web crawling prohibitively expensive for companies trying to feed their hungry LLM (large language model) bots.\u201d<\/p>\n

A single human visitor only briefly sees the Anubis mascot while their browser completes a cryptographic proof of work challenge.<\/p>\n

For AI companies deploying hordes of content scraping bots, these computations can require \u201c… a whole datacentre spinning up to full power. In theory, when scanning a site is so intensive, the spider backs off.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cloudflare strikes back<\/p>\n

One of the most recent and significant blows against AI has been landed by Cloudflare, the Internet\u2019s leading infrastructure provider.<\/p>\n

Inundated with clients struggling to protect their Web sites from AI scrapers, Cloudflare has reversed its original \u201copt-out\u201d model and now automatically blocks AI bots.<\/p>\n

Press Gazette reported Cloudflare\u2019s decision was \u201cbacked by more than a dozen major news and media publishers including the Associated Press, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, Conde\u0301 Nast, DMGT, Dotdash Meredith, Fortune, Gannett, The Independent, Sky News, Time and Ziff Davis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cloudflare is also offering a more aggressive approach called AI Labyrinth, a tarpit\/poisoning-inspired tool designed to ensnare AI scrapers.<\/p>\n

Citing a CloudFlare blog post, The Verge explained that, when Labyrinth \u201cdetects \u2018inappropriate bot behaviour\u2019, the free, opt-in tool lures crawlers down a path of links to AI-generated decoy pages that \u2018slow down, confuse, and waste the resources\u2019 of those acting in bad faith.\u201d<\/p>\n

Can AI Web scrapers really be stopped?<\/p>\n

The age of publishers watching passively as AI bots scrape their content is over.<\/p>\n

Some, like The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal, are striking deals and throwing open the gates to AI.<\/p>\n

Others are communicating firm boundaries, setting technical traps, and collaborating with like-minded leaders to develop effective defences.<\/p>\n

Whether AI Web scrapers can be brought to heel remains to be seen, but for the publishers resisting the AI takeover, it\u2019s clear the fight must continue if they want to retain control over their content.<\/p>\n

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