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University libraries are being swarmed by AI bots, putting public access at risk

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Why University libraries are being swarmed by AI bots, putting public access at risk matters

Organisations that publish content or run public-facing systems should expect AI scraping to degrade availability and should review crawler controls and access policies.

Summary

A CBC News report says university libraries are being overwhelmed by automated AI data-scraping bots that strain their systems. The strain threatens public access to library resources. The source description contains only links, so this summary is based on the headline.

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