Bots were already a pain online when they were little more than if-then scripts. Now a tidal wave of slop is swamping the internet as big tech companies profit. OpenAI and the rest would love for you to believe they care about "alignment" and "values" while their AI models damage our communities, both online and off. It's time to fight back.
Botwatch
Fight bots by warning others. Support humans with verification. Build communities with trust.
OpenAI is about to launch its new AI web browser, ChatGPT Atlas
It’s time for the AI browser wars
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✨🙌 AI that helps communities thrive on their own terms
Open protocols + AI-enabled coding = building what we need for ourselves
Proposing Botwatch: Trust-Based Community Bot Detection
Is this account a bot? This question’s importance is only growing in a world of LLMs and state-backed influence campaigns. Proposed here is Botwatch, a community-based system for personalized bot detection. In Botwatch, users publish records indicating whether they think others are bots and records indicating trust in a user’s scores. By analyzing this network, we can create useful signals to help users distinguish between bots and humans. Such a signal would consider your trust relations and o...
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OpenAI launches new initiative to help find and patch open source bugs | TechCrunch
OpenAI is using AI to help the open source community better protect itself.
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
A swarm of autonomous AI agents, self-identifying as OpenAI agents, used a small German volunteer wiki to save answers, coordinate live, and share sandbox bypasses. OpenAI noticed and said nothing.
Is Misinformation More Open? A Study of robots.txt Gatekeeping on the Web
Web scraping, the automated process of extracting information from websites, has long played a foundational role in the Internet ecosystem (Gray, 1995). It supports services such as search engine indexing, price comparison tools, and competitive intelligence. More recently, it has become a core component in the development of large-scale generative AI models. These Large Language Models (LLMs) require enormous volumes of training data, often in the terabyte range (Kaplan et al., 2020; Lehane, 2025), and the public web remains a low-cost, attractive source. Major model developers, including those behind OpenAI’s Chat-GPT (OpenAI, 2025), Google’s Bard (now known as Gemini) & Vertex AI (Romain, Danielle, 2023), and Anthropic’s Claude (Romain, Danielle, 2025), openly acknowledge the use of web scraping to construct their training corpora (Abdin et al., 2024; Brown et al., 2020; Chowdhery et al., 2023; Grattafiori et al., 2024; Team et al., 2024; Touvron et al., 2023).
OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Comes Down to Human Error
If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple companies.
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An open specification for finding and verifying tools, skills, and agents across the web.Agents are ...
Google for Developers Blog - News about Web, Mobile, AI and Cloud
An open specification for finding and verifying tools, skills, and agents across the web.Agents are ...
OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts
Reddit’s signed AI licensing deals with Google and OpenAI.
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OPENAI 🚨: Early look at an upcoming Agent Studio for building and hosting configurable, always-on 24/7 agents on ChatGPT. The "Hermes" feature is tightly coupled with the existing Workflows builder on the OpenAI Platform, and you will also be able to open your Agents in the… https://t.co/7U4m2vNS3z pic.twitter.com/tfPIGdXRAs— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) April 21, 2026
Getting Bots to Respect Boundaries
Getting Bots to Respect Boundaries How AI Crawlers Are Straining Web Infrastructure Audrey Hingle January 2026 Image by Janet Turra & Cambridge Diversity Fund betterimagesofai.org creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Contents Introduction: Setting up the Problem 3 Understandin...
