The increasing prevalence of AI crawlers on the internet is raising concerns about the cost of hosting and bandwidth. These bots, which scrape websites for data to train AI models, now constitute a significant portion of web traffic, potentially overwhelming servers and increasing operational expenses for website owners. This trend necessitates a discussion on how to manage or tax this bot traffic to ensure fair cost distribution and sustainable web infrastructure. AI
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