Referral traffic from AI platforms grows despite publishers' attempts to block crawlersAI platforms are significantly increasing referral traffic to publishers' sites.Many publishers, despite recent traffic growth from AI, still see only modest increases compared to other sources.
Like digital locusts, OpenAI and Anthropic AI bots cause havoc and raise costs for websitesAI companies are causing disruptions to individual websites by aggressively crawling the web for data, impacting owners financially.