Targeting quality or volume? Would it be possible to seed high volume propaganda?
University libraries are being swarmed by AI bots, putting public access at risk
Academic libraries are fighting off swarms of data-scraping bots — that are slowing or crashing sites meant for students, researchers and the public — as AI companies continue hunting for content to feed their large language models. University libraries say entire collections are being knocked offline by persistent streams of unruly bots trying to access their archives, which include academic, historical and government documents. “They’re just out there on the internet, just bombarding us with trying to grab up as much material as possible,” Jill Strykowski, cataloguing and government documents lead at San Jose State University, told CBC News. The bots are used by both AI and third-party companies to scour websites and retrieve data, often to feed LLMs like Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT. Libraries, museums and other cultural heritage institutions are prime targets because they have quality, vetted information that is generally not hidden behind paywalls or logins. The bots are “causing an incredible amount of work and headache for every institution that does digitization work and every institution that is trying to make information openly available,” Strykowski says. Researchers found such reports started appearing in late 2024 across North America, Europe and Oceania and experts tell CBC News the problem continues to get worse…
Could be useful…
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