Are AI Bots Knocking Cultural Heritage Offline?

Last week the GLAM-E Lab released a new report Are AI Bots Knocking Cultural Heritage Offline? . The short answer seems to be “yes”. The longer answer fills a report. The report exists because we started seeing one-off accounts from online cultural heritage collections that swarms of bots were knocking the collections offline. The bots were overwhelming the site as they scraped it for data to…