“Open Repositories Are Being Profoundly Impacted By AI Bots and Other Crawlers: Results of a COAR Survey”


The results of the survey found that over 90% of respondents are encountering AI bots, usually more than once a week, and often leading to service disruptions. Respondents also reported using a variety of measures to minimize or stop AI bots from accessing the repository applying a mix of approaches such as rate-limiting, firewall rules, robots.txt rules and shared white-lists.

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Author: Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

Charles W. Bailey, Jr.