Will AI Bots Lead to the End of the Internet As We Know It?

Source: Google News - HealthThe internet may be breaking. For decades, websites welcomed crawlers. Getting "scraped"—by Google or any search engine—used to mean getting indexed, ranked, and discovered. For every two bots it sent to a website, Google sent one user. So scraping meant web traffic—and business. But now, as generative artificial intelligence tools race to ingest the internet, scraping may mean that the internet is splitting in two: one for people and...