AI Bots Are Swarming University Libraries, Limiting Public Access
Reports say university libraries are being swarmed by AI bots, which puts public access to them at risk. The story points to data scraping, meaning bots copying information from websites at scale. It is a CBC report, so it is worth a look for anyone who uses campus or public library websites.
Quick glossaryBots, Scraping
- Bots
- Software programs that run automatically on the internet, performing repetitive tasks without a person clicking each step.
- Scraping
- Automatically copying large amounts of information from websites using computer programs, usually at very high speed.
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