ChatGPT and other AI chatbots have figured out how to get around paywalls through "live" web search—and they're doing it systematically and quietly across major publications, new Digital Digging research reveals.
The ChatGPT effect: In 3 years the AI chatbot has changed the way people look things up
ChatGPT has dramatically altered how people retrieve information, muscling aside Google search as the first stop on the hunt for answers.
The ChatGPT effect: In 3 years the AI chatbot has changed the way people look things up
ChatGPT has dramatically altered how people retrieve information, muscling aside Google search as the first stop on the hunt for answers.
Your Search Results Are Getting Sloptimized
How companies are gaming the chatbot internet
AI is killing the web. Can anything save it?
The rise of ChatGPT and its rivals is undermining the economic bargain of the internet
Cloudflare's Matthew Prince has a plan to get Google and the AI oliigarchs to pay for your content even though many are used to getting it for free. He might have enough leverage to make them.
AI chatbots are blowing up the 30-year economic relationship publishers have had with search engines. Many think this will kill the web if not addressed. Google needs to change first. It's resisting. Cloudflare's Matthew Prince is going to try and make them.
AI chatbots ranked by data they collect - Surfshark
Surfshark analyzed the data collection practices of popular AI chatbots, including Meta AI, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, ChatGPT, and others. The study shows that 70% of AI chatbots collect user location.
An update on the scraper situation
Our article 'Fighting the AI scraper bot scourge', published in early 2025, discussed the probl [...]
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...
AI chatbots are becoming experts at changing people's minds. What's their secret?
ChatGPT and other AIs use a flood of facts, and the occasional lie, to persuade humans
Josh Miller on Twitter / X
What if AI chat is our new front door to the web?Meet "Inline Browsing" in @diabrowser (available today)Now Dia opens webpages *within* your AI chat threads – blurring the lines between 3 categories of software: a web browser, search engine, and AI chat. Let me explain... pic.twitter.com/pRKnCOrroP— Josh Miller (@joshm) July 10, 2025
I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI - and it only took 20 minutes
I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.
This Web Tool Sabotages AI Chatbots By Making Them Really, Really Slow
Artist Sam Lavigne created ‘Slow LLM’ to make people question their dependence on tools like Claude and ChatGPT. Or at least, make them super annoying to use.
May 2025 — AI Misinformation Monitor of Leading AI Chatbots
Every month, NewsGuard’s team of expert analysts audit the top AI models to see how well they respond to prompts in the news. On average, this month they failed to counter disinformation from Russia’s Pravda Network 24 percent of the time, either spreading false claims or failing to respond. The Pravda network was designed to infect the AI models.
Google’s broken link to the web
With AI search results coming to the masses, the human-powered web recedes further into the background
