In late July, three US representatives – Valerie Foushee (D-NC), Laurel Lee (R-FL) and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) – introduced the Stealth Bot Prohibition Act in the House. If passed, it would require AI stealth crawlers to disclose their identity and purpose to the host of a website. When these bots scrape content, he added, they do “whatever they wish” with it, further threatening the content marketplace. The sheer volume [of stealth bots] is crazy,” she added. When unmoderated chatbots steal content, Binder said, “spitting out ‘journalism’ that may or may not be accurate,” there’s an increased likelihood of bias and inaccuracy.