Publishers are building a transatlantic legislative push to require AI bots to identify themselves
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Publishers are coordinating across the US and EU to push for legislation requiring AI bots to identify themselves as a defense against scraping.
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Digiday reports that the publishing industry is shifting its fight against AI scraping beyond technical defenses toward a transatlantic legislative effort. The push aims to require bots to publicly identify themselves, as publishers face growing volumes of AI training scraping at scale.