Bots, the share of Internet traffic generated by machines rather than humans, have become a huge problem, largely driven by the rise of web scraping, a technique aimed at extracting information from websites in an automated way. In recent times it has grown considerably thanks to the spread of generative AI companies, so the question is what to do about it.
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New York Times approves certain uses of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the newsroom
According to Semafor, The New York Times (NYT), one of the most combative outlets against big tech companies that use generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), has allegedly given the green light to using AI within the newsroom for tasks not directly related to news stories, such as social media texts and SEO-optimized headlines, among others.
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