Gemini Notebook's new scraping feature threatens website attribution

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Google's NotebookLM has rebranded to Gemini Notebook, potentially increasing AI scraping of websites without attribution. Gemini Notebook's "Discover Sources" feature can scrape up to ten online articles for AI summaries without providing referrals or permission from site owners. Site owners have until August 2026 to update firewalls or .htaccess files to block the new Gemini Notebook user agent, as it does not obey robots.txt.


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