'This is coming for everyone': A new kind of AI bot takes over the web – Red Lake Nation News
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As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI.
(Washington Post illustration; iStock)
People are replacing Google search with artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, a major shift that has unleashed a new kind of bot loose on the web.
To offer users a tidy AI summary instead of Google’s “10 blue links,” companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic have started sending out bots to retrieve and recap content in real time. They are scraping webpages and loading relevant content into the AI’s memory and “reading” far more content than a human ever would.
According to data shared exclusively with The Washington Post, traffic from retrieval bots grew 49 percent in the first quarter of 2025 from the fourth quarter of 2024. The data is from TollBit, a New York-based start-up that helps news publishers monitor and make money when AI companies use their content.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/06/11/tollbit-ai-bot-retrieval/
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