Foreign AI bots actively collect data from the websites of Russian brokers
The share of requests from so-called bots-scrapers collecting data, including for training artificial intelligence (AI), in the AI traffic of Russian brokers’ sites soared from 7% in June to 68.82% in August 2026. About this "Vedomosti" said Deputy General Director of Servicepipe Daniil Shcherbakov. The volume of data transfers in the interests of AI grew by about a third, from 6 million requests in June to 8 million in August, ie, scrapers in August accounted for 5.5 million requests against 420,000 in June. Basically, the information was collected by the American bot Meta (the organization is recognized as extremist and banned in Russia) (recognized as an extremist organization and banned in Russia) and Claude by Anthropic.
The share of requests from so-called bots-scrapers collecting data, including for training artificial intelligence (AI), in the AI traffic of Russian brokers’ sites soared from 7% in June to 68.82% in August 2026. About this "Vedomosti" said Deputy General Director of Servicepipe Daniil Shcherbakov. The volume of data transfers in the interests of AI grew by about a third, from 6 million requests in June to 8 million in August, ie, scrapers in August accounted for 5.5 million requests against 420,000 in June. Basically, the information was collected by the American bot Meta (the organization is recognized as extremist and banned in Russia) (recognized as an extremist organization and banned in Russia) and Claude by Anthropic.
