Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post:

TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, half run by national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps  —  As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI.  —  Summary4

Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post:

TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, half run by national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps  —  As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI.  —  Summary4

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