AI giants targeted by scraping bots — ChatGPT and Perplexity enter the most-scraped websites list for the first time

Businesses are tracking AI as consumers shift to AI-powered buying patterns

Social media is also a big are for monitoring consumer trends

Conventional retail like Walmart and eBay have dropped

AI platforms have become synonymous with scraping other sites for information, but it's not every day you hear of AI sites themselves becoming targets. The latest Decodo research has revealed just that, though, with ChatGPT and Perplexity both appearing in the top five.

Decodo argues this marks a fundamental shift…