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fromLos Angeles Times
4 days ago

Rapper RBX sues Spotify, accuses Drake of benefiting from fraudulent music streams

RBX, whose real name is Eric Dwayne Collins, is seeking a class-action status and damages and restitution from Spotify. RBX, along with other rights holders, receive payment based on how often their music is streamed on Spotify, according to the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in L.A. on Sunday. Spotify pays rights holders a percentage of revenue based on the total streams attributed to them compared with total volume of streams for all songs, the lawsuit said.
Music
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fromTechCrunch
1 week ago
Digital life

Digg founder Kevin Rose on the need for trusted social communities in the AI era | TechCrunch

fromNature
5 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Web-scraping AI bots cause disruption for scientific databases and journals

Increased bot traffic is disrupting legitimate use of scholarly sites due to scraping for AI training.
Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
6 months ago

A new, 'diabolical' way to thwart Big Tech's data-sucking AI bots: Feed them gibberish

Bots now generate more internet traffic than humans, significantly impacting website operations and costs.
Cloudflare's AI Labyrinth offers a novel solution to mislead and exhaust data-harvesting bots.
fromTechCrunch
1 week ago
Digital life

Digg founder Kevin Rose on the need for trusted social communities in the AI era | TechCrunch

fromNature
5 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Web-scraping AI bots cause disruption for scientific databases and journals

Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
6 months ago

A new, 'diabolical' way to thwart Big Tech's data-sucking AI bots: Feed them gibberish

Bots now generate more internet traffic than humans, significantly impacting website operations and costs.
Cloudflare's AI Labyrinth offers a novel solution to mislead and exhaust data-harvesting bots.
fromKotaku
2 weeks ago

Watch As A Scalper Just Strips Stores Of Pokemon Cards

While scalping is an ever-present scourge for collectible card game players, it has become a completely ruinous issue for the Pokémon TCG for almost a year now. Ever since the release of Prismatic Evolutions in January 2025, it has been close to impossible for even specialist stores to stock new sets of the wildly popular game, online stores are wiped clean in seconds, and larger retailers see anything put out on shelves gone in minutes.
Video games
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
3 weeks ago

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian says 'so much of the internet is dead'-and the rise of bots and 'quasi-AI, LinkedIn slop' killed it | Fortune

Automated bots and AI-generated accounts now constitute a large portion of internet traffic, raising demand for live, verifiable human engagement on social platforms.
#linkedin
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Why does misinformation spread faster than truth?

We examine how online misinformation spreads and the efforts to stop it.
Digital life
fromComputerworld
1 month ago

It's time to push back against the AI internet

The Dead Internet Theory is a false conspiracy theory. But in practical terms, it might as well be true. Emerging from the deranged muck of 4chan and Wizardchan in the late 2010s, the Dead Internet Theory holds that secret cabals of all-powerful government or corporate conspirators use bots and AI-generated content to replace humans on the internet. The goal: to manipulate public perception, control narratives, and influence the public's behavior.
Artificial intelligence
Marketing tech
fromPractical Ecommerce
1 month ago

Did Google Just Prevent Rank Tracking?

Google disabled the &num=100 parameter, reducing bot-accessible search listings and causing Search Console performance shifts with fewer bot impressions and altered average positions.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Sam Altman Concerned That the Whole Internet Now Feels Fake as AI Takes Over

Sam Altman notes the internet feels increasingly fake as AI, bots, platform optimization and LLM-influenced human speech erode authenticity, while he ignores his role.
E-Commerce
fromSecuritymagazine
4 months ago

Over Half of Online Shopping Traffic is Made Up of Bots

Automated bots surpassed human shoppers in e-commerce traffic, highlighting a significant shift in online retail dynamics.
#ai
fromTheregister
4 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Bots are overwhelming websites with their hunger for AI data

Increased bot activity is threatening digital collections in arts and culture by overwhelming GLAM institutions with traffic and data harvesting.
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
5 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Keeping the Web Up Under the Weight of AI Crawlers

Automated traffic from AI companies is overwhelming many websites, potentially harming performance and leading to increased costs.
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