TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In
TIME is now serving two different versions of its website. Humans get the magazine. AI crawlers get a stripped down markdown copy with ads baked in that no person will ever see. I fetched one ordinary…
Summary
TIME has created two distinct versions of its website: one for readers and another for AI bots, which includes integrated ads designed solely for automated access. This approach raises questions about how media companies are adapting to the presence of AI in content consumption.
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