A Wave of Unexplained Bot Traffic Is Sweeping the Web
“But there are some key differences between these Chinese bots and other AI bots. First, there's simply way more of them. King says on his website that the traffic from China and Singapore accounts for 22 percent of overall traffic, while all other AI bots account for less than 10 percent combined. Most leading AI companies clearly identify their bots to website operators, which also makes them easier to block. The frontier AI labs are 'not as interested in evading' bot-blocking rules, says Brent Maynard, senior director of security technology and strategy at the internet infrastructure company Akamai. He says AI companies usually only start trying to disguise their bots after a website shuts the front door. This wave of Chinese bots, however, disguised themselves as normal human users from the start, and they have even bypassed common bot-blocking rules, several website owners told WIRED.”