AI Training Bots Overwhelm Cultural Institutions

A surge in bots harvesting data for AI training is overwhelming cultural institutions like museums and archives. A survey of 43 organizations reveals that aggressive bots, often exceeding robots.txt guidelines, are causing website slowdowns and outages. The problem is so severe that it's threatening the accessibility of digital collections. The report calls on AI companies to develop more responsible data acquisition methods, as cultural institutions lack the resources to endlessly fight back against this.