Jill Strykowski
cataloguing and government documents lead, San Jose State University
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“They're just out there on the internet, just bombarding us with trying to grab up as much material as possible”
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University libraries are being swarmed by AI bots, putting public access at risk
CBC News reports that academic libraries say data-scraping bots feeding AI models are slowing or crashing their sites. Librarians and open-access advocates describe outages, limits of blocking and login walls, and a voluntary robots.txt opt-out recently backed by four AI companies.