An experiment with AI affiliate sites shows how Google’s spam systems treat low-trust, programmatic SEO — and why it can’t stand alone.

An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission.

Anthropic, which has positioned itself as the cautious, safety-focused lab, suggests that model scraping could be used to build powerful tools stripped of safeguards meant to “prevent state and ...