arXiv:2606. 19116v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The World Wide Web was built on an assumption held for three decades: the primary consumer of web content is a human being.
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The World Wide Web was built on an assumption held for three decades: the primary consumer of web content is a human being. This permeates every layer; its access model presumes human visitors, its economics rest on human attention, and its content targets human perception.
The paper introduces a method to detect which web scrapers feed data to large language models (LLMs) by deploying dynamic websites that issue unique canary tokens to each scraper. By querying LLMs for information about these sites, the authors can identify when an LLM consistently outputs the unique tokens, indicating exposure to a specific scraper. Experiments on 22 production LLM systems show the technique reliably uncovers both known and undisclosed scrapers, offering a tool for third parties to monitor and control unwanted web scraping.
arXiv:2607. 22953v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern AI systems bring societal risks such as mass surveillance, extreme concentrations of power, and loss of user autonomy---calling into question a model where third-parties collect and control massive amounts of user data.
arXiv:2607. 08147v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous web agents promise to automate everyday browsing tasks, but inherit one of the web's oldest attack surfaces.
An LLM-based agent is a loop that reads itself. Agentic frameworks externalize identity, memory, and disposition into editable files.
arXiv:2606. 30801v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Personalization algorithms determine what content users encounter on online platforms.