Cloudflare is luring web-scraping bots into an ‘AI Labyrinth’

Cloudflare is luring web-scraping bots into an ‘AI Labyrinth’

Cloudflare, one of the biggest network internet infrastructure companies in the world, has announced AI Labyrinth, a new tool to fight web-crawling bots that scrape sites for AI training data without permission. The company says in a blog post that when it detects “inappropriate bot behavior,” the free, opt-in tool lures crawlers down a path of links to AI-generated decoy pages that “slow down, confuse, and waste the resources” of those acting in bad faith.

Websites have long used the…

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