Cloudflare has unveiled AI Labyrinth, a tool designed to control and manage web content scraping bots and train AI (AI Crawler) with a focus on bots that do not follow instructions specified in robots.txt, which is currently a problem.
The approach of AI Labyrinth does not involve blocking content scraping bots, as developers can often find ways to circumvent this. The new approach involves using Generative AI, where when suspicious bot scraping behavior is detected, the system generates new content and traps the bot in a loop of non-existent content that is unreadable to the general public. This results in bot owners not obtaining the desired information, wasting time and resources on running the bots.
The AI Labyrinth feature is now available for all Cloudflare customers, including a free plan, but users must opt-in to utilize it.
TLDR: Cloudflare introduces AI Labyrinth tool to combat unauthorized web content scraping bots by using Generative AI to trap bots in a loop of unreadable content.
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