Meta Muse has already broken a record: it beats all competitors in data collection, Surfshark warns

Meta's newly launched AI agent, Muse, has already broken a record by becoming the most data‑hungry chatbot, out‑collecting every competitor according to Surfshark’s latest research. For website owners this surge in Muse‑driven traffic means a dramatic increase in automated data scraping and user‑behavior profiling. Muse’s aggressive data‑collection methods can flood servers with high‑frequency requests, skew analytics, and potentially expose sensitive site content to unauthorized AI training pipelines. Sites that rely on accurate visitor metrics or protect proprietary information must prepare for a new class of AI‑generated traffic that operates at scale and can bypass traditional bot‑detection heuristics. **Actionable tips:** 1. **Update your llms.txt** to explicitly disallow Muse bots by adding a `User‑Agent: MetaMuse` line with `Disallow: /` and a clear `Crawl‑Delay` to limit request rates. 2. Deploy a real‑time AI‑bot detection layer that flags traffic patterns matching Surfshark’s identified Muse signatures (e.g., rapid sequential page requests, uniform header strings). 3. Regularly audit server logs for spikes in request volume from IP ranges associated with Meta’s data centers and adjust firewall rules or rate‑limiting policies accordingly.