Vogue, Esquire publishers plead with Congress to ban AI theft of their content

Executives from iconic publications like Esquire, Cosmopolitan, Vogue, and Vanity Fair are descending on Washington to lobby for another AI regulation bill, this time tackling the threat AI poses to their bottom lines and longevity. Introduced to the House in July, the bipartisan Stealth Bot Prohibition Act would prohibit the deployment of "stealth bots," or unidentified AI agents tasked with scraping and indexing a website's content, without disclosure. Should it pass, bot scrapers and their purposes would have to be…