Congress bill would make web scraping illegal unless AI agents identify themselves
generativist · x · 2026-09-17
A proposal in Congress targets AI agent identity: it is drafted so broadly that scraping a website with code—without announcing who you are and why you are scraping—would violate the law. The original poster argues this kind of identity policy for AI agents is bad news for developers and researchers.
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