Cloudflare Using Devilish Trick to Trap AI Scrapers in Infinite Maze of AI-Generated Content

Cloudflare Using Devilish Trick to Trap AI Scrapers in Infinite Maze of AI-Generated Content

The internet: a once wacky world of strange forums and obscure memes, a tool to harness the sum total of human knowledge at a moment's notice. At least, that was before AI slop ruined everything. To feed data-hungry AI models, companies and individuals are deploying a growing army of AI "web crawlers," bots tasked with sifting the internet for text, pictures, and other data. Once set loose, these bots bog down web servers, destroy search engines…

One of the Internet infrastructure giants, Cloudflare, announced AI Labyrinth, a new weapon against web scraping bots that unauthorisedly extract data from websites to drive artificial intelligences. In a blog post, the company explains that this free and activating tool on demand detects abusive scraping behaviors and [...] Read the article Cloudflare AI Labyrinth: an anti-bot trap to counter the illegal web scraping appeared first on BlogNT: t…