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DESCRIPTION:Thankfully this isn’t about road traffic but ironically\, web
 site traffic. And if you go to investigate what’s causing it\, it’s ju
 st an endless amount of requests from a battalion of AI bot scrapers\, vis
 iting your website for nothing but content to train their machine learning
  models with. It’s like the plague\, they hunt you for your content and 
 you’re out there battling with a toothpick. In a more technical view\, y
 our toothpick is the robots.txt\, a file that politely indicates to bots t
 o not scrape content from your website. Not like most AI bots care (only s
 ome good ones do)\, it was just a suggestion anyway.\n\nIt’s definitely 
 a growing concern\, content and website owners are tired of having to deal
  with their content being scraped without their approval and dealing with 
 the overhead costs that AI bot scrapers bring. This presentation deep dive
 s into the different tactics people and companies are adopting to help mit
 igate AI bots and the issues it brings. So far it feels like you’re play
 ing chess while AI companies are playing checkers. In most cases\, the def
 ense put up is evaded in a month or someone comes up with an offensive tac
 tic but has low impact. Do we make these bots show proof of work? Or maybe
  make them pay money to scrap content? (At least\, we’re getting *some* 
 money from losing our content). Or do we go the other way and try to oblit
 erate them\, exhaust the scraper’s resources in return? How about poison
 ing the soup (training data for ML model)? Or is the soup poisoning itself
  at this point with the vast amount of AI generated content being posted a
 nyway? Do we even bother trying in the first place\, or block every bot ou
 t even if it’s the search engine ones? Lots of questions\, let’s deep 
 dive into it together!
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LOCATION:Room 1
SUMMARY:Traffic at 3am? - Cheryl Andrea
URL:https://cfp.nluug.nl/nluug-najaarsconferentie-2025/talk/WWPYJX/
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