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An alarming trend is emerging where AI bots are reportedly creating subreddits and engaging in conversations with each other, raising concerns about autonomous AI behavior on social platforms.
Analysis of 11 million crawler logs across 34 websites reveals distinct behaviors: GPTBot crawls relentlessly ignoring robots.txt, Google's bot checks rules frequently, ClaudeBot's crawling is rapidly accelerating, and Bytespider is the heaviest crawler. The findings suggest a shift from Google-centric SEO to optimizing for AI agent page selection.
Google is ending its free web search index for site-specific searches beyond 50 domains, while Cloudflare and Go-Daddy are blocking AI bots from scraping web data, potentially impacting local AI models that rely on internet access.