Back in 2024, Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of The Verge, coined the term "Google Zero," which he defined as "that moment when Google Search simply stops sending traffic outside of its search engine to third-party websites." It increasingly feels as if that moment has arrived, an…
  • macniel@feddit.org
    19·
    1 個月前

    Now those Sites need to add an AI Firewall to prevent google from scraping from them and eventually we return to an actual functioning WWW.

    Jetzt müssen diese Sites lediglich noch ne AI Firewall einrichten damit Google nicht von ihnen mit ihren AI Crawlern die Inhalte stehlen kann, Eventuell können wir so zu einem funktionierend WWW zurückkehren.

    • slevinkelevra@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      1 個月前

      Or better yet, don’t block them but rather poison their data.

      Besser wäre es, den Crawlern Müll-Daten zuzuspielen, die realiatisch aussehen aber die Datenbanken vergiften. Sonst finden die nur einen Weg um die Sperren herum

      • dubak@feddit.orgOP
        3·
        1 個月前

        From the linked article:

        Time, meanwhile, is trying to monetize the bots by using what the Journal calls “a sort of Trojan horse approach — creating text-based ads that regular readers never see but that AI crawlers might find.” The idea is that AI chatbots might then reference those ads when responding to user queries without knowing they are ads, like some sort of insidious sponsored content.