According to a letter by a startup called TollBit, as reported by Reuters, multiple AI companies are ignoring "do not crawl" instructions in the robots.txt protocol and scraping websites to get content used to train their technologies.| Engadget
System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4.| Simon Willison’s Weblog
12 posts tagged ‘ai-energy-usage’. How much energy is used by AI systems?| Simon Willison’s Weblog
This is the second post in our series on AI bots and their impact on fraud and detection systems. In the first article, we outlined the main categories of bots emerging from the generative AI ecosystem, explained their roles, and showed how each affects detection strategies. We grouped AI-driven automation| The Castle blog
Direct link to a PDF on Anthropic's CDN because they don't appear to have a landing page anywhere for this document. Anthropic's system cards are always worth a look, and …| Simon Willison’s Weblog
There’s an accelerating cat-and-mouse game between web publishers and AI crawlers, and we all stand to lose.| MIT Technology Review
