Executives from iconic publications like Esquire, Cosmopolitan, Vogue, and Vanity Fair are descending on Washington to lobby for another AI regulation bill, this time tackling the threat AI poses to their bottom lines and longevity.
Introduced to the House in July, the bipartisan Stealth Bot Prohibition Act would prohibit the deployment of “stealth bots,” or unidentified AI agents tasked with scraping and indexing a website’s content, without disclosure. Should it pass, bot scrapers and their purposes would have to be clearly identified to website publishers or risk civil penalties under the Federal Trade Commission. Attorneys general would also be authorized to take action against AI scraping.
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Backed by the trade nonprofit News/Media Alliance, the group is calling for federal regulation to level the playing field as AI dominates website traffic, search, and discoverability — and puts many publishers at risk.
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