c&en | M Monroe
Traffic from bots run by artificial intelligence companies is disrupting scientific journal websites. Some publications report that their websites are now visited more by bots than by genuine users. AI firms typically use bots to access scholarly content and scrape whatever data they can to train the large language models (LLMs) that power their writing assistance tools and other products. While some scholarly publishers have signed deals giving access to AI firms, advocates for authors and rights holders have said scientists and academics should be given a chance to opt out of this practice and should receive compensation and credit when their papers are used to train AI chatbots.