The question is no longer whether AI crawlers are disrupting the internet, but what we can do about it, write Tanu I and Corinne Cath.

Pixelfed said it is "seeing unprecedented levels of traffic."

“You have to be 100% certain before publishing and show the audience why something is false,” says journalist Shayan Sardarizadeh.

Andrew Gelman has a post on the benefits of negative criticism, where he talks about the careful methodological demolitions he has done of others’ research that he has found to be slipshod. i…