State of the Bots

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Key takeaways:

• AI-driven web scraping more than doubled (+117%) from Q3 to Q4 2024.
  

• Many AI models are scraping under the radar—bypassing robots.txt restrictions with hidden scrapers nearly equaling the activity of identified bots. This is big. This is something to think about, and does robots.txt even matter anymore? If there is scraping under the radar,r is it even being detected?
  

• AI bot scraping that bypassed robots.txt restrictions grew by 40%, proving that simple blocking measures are ineffective. I imagine these numbers are only going up! Lots of development is happening so that AI Agents can start paying to scrape. The infrastructure for AI Agent wallets is coming dast.
  

• To counteract lost ad revenue, publishers will need to develop licensing agreements with AI firms to monetize their content. This seems like a no-brainer. Even more important is if we are no longer surfing the web as humans, and only bots are scraping and surfing, are websites going to change? Will they be optimized for bots?
  
  My key takeaways: this feels like this sets up some interesting opportunities for AI Agent wallet infrastructure, likely M&A in web scraping technology, and some new innovative data licensing agreements. Below link to the larger report

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