Uldis ZalcmanisEvery chat-coverage number we have published rests on one rule, and nobody had ever checked whether it works. We pre-registered the test, published the result whatever it said, and it says our rule finds a visible chat control about six times in ten and detects an AI assistant almost never.
Uldis ZalcmanisMalaysian law requires a privacy notice in both Bahasa Melayu and English. We scanned 1,233 .my domains from a Malaysian IP address and read every notice we could reach. 36% of commercial sites carry both languages. Government sites, which the Act expressly does not cover, manage 49%.
Uldis ZalcmanisI sampled 400 services from Australia's national childcare register, resolved 109 distinct websites, and read what each one tells AI systems. Three block an AI crawler and all three blocks came from Cloudflare. Exactly one llms.txt in the whole sample was written by a human. Full method, confidence intervals and limitations included.
Uldis ZalcmanisI scanned 40 Malaysian university websites and tested every AI chatbot on them. There were three, and all three were broken. Here is what the numbers showed, what it costs, and what the same scanners found when I pointed them at my own sites first.