Neil Cohen

For years, there have been surveys reporting on the state of bad bots to demonstrate the increasing sophistication and financial impact malicious bots have on businesses. The result of these studies? Bad bots are bad for business. But we already knew that, didn't we? We conduct a different type of survey. One that covers the state of bot mitigation exclusively from the perspective of organizations already using anti-bot solutions to protect them.

Generative AI (GenAI) relies on training Large Language Models (LLMs) with huge volumes of data. To do this, scrapers ongoingly sift through the Internet, automating the extraction of information that train LLMs. They scour the web across different domains - news sites, forums, and a lot more - to provide coherent responses when prompted. For decades, businesses have mostly embraced crawlers and web scrapers from search engines.