The main thing to glean from this article is that the nature of web site scraping is changing. "There are two main types of AI bots - RAG AI bots and training data bots... Training scrapes are 'one-and-done' to feed a model's general knowledge... RAG AI bots, or agents, retrieve factual, current information in real-time. They respond to user prompts in AI products like Perplexity and ChatGPT by searching the web. Responses include links or citations to the original sources, such as publishers' sites. RAG can surface and summarize articles without storing them in training data, which makes the threat to traffic and monetization even more immediate and harder to regulate."
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