Executives from Condé Nast, Hearst Magazines, USA Today Co., and The Seattle Times will be among more than 300 news publishers heading to Washington D.C. today to press Congress to crack down on “bad bots” that scrape their content for AI training without permission. The trip, organized by trade body News/Media Alliance, is centered on a bill known as the Stealth Bot Prohibition Act, that would force AI stealth crawlers to clearly identify themselves and their purpose instead of disguising their traffic and skirting publishers’ attempts to block scraping. Executives will head to Capitol Hill and meet with senators, other members of Congress…
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