Blocking AI bots is not an AI strategy
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Publishers are being pushed to make increasingly consequential decisions about AI. Allow this crawler. Block that one. License another. Update robots.txt. Protect premium content. Negotiate with an AI platform. Yet... The post Blocking AI bots is not an AI strategy appeared first on Digital Content Next .
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Bot traffic is visits, ad impressions or clicks generated by automated software rather than people, ranging from honest search crawlers to fraudulent bots built to look human.
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