Condé Nast, Hearst among 300 media execs to push federal ‘bad bots’ bill on AI scraping
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More than 300 publishing execs are heading to Washington, D.C to push Congress to crack down on AI bots that scrape their content without permission.
Executives from Condé Nast, Hearst Magazines, USA Today Co., and The Seattle Times will be among more than 300 news publishers heading to Washington D.C. today to press Congress to crack down on “bad bots” that scrape their content for AI training without permission.
The trip, organized by trade body News/Media Alliance, is centered on a bill known as the Stealth Bot Prohibition Act, that would force AI stealth crawlers to clearly identify themselves and their purpose instead of disguising their traffic and skirting publishers’ attempts to block scraping.
Executives will head to Capitol Hill and meet with senators, other members of Congress and their staff to discuss the issue: stealth crawlers often ignore or circumvent publishers’ tactics to prohibit content scraping without their permission –— and because they do not self-identify, this makes it very difficult for publishers to weed them out or block them.
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