University libraries are being swarmed by AI bots, putting public access at risk
AI summary
Editorial policyAcademic library websites are experiencing slowdowns and crashes due to swarms of data-scraping bots used by AI companies to collect content for large language models.
Key points
- •Academic library sites intended for students, researchers, and the public are being slowed down or crashed by massive numbers of data-scraping bots.
- •AI companies continue to harvest content from these libraries to feed their large language models.
- •University libraries are actively fighting off these bot swarms to maintain access for legitimate users.
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