AI bots scraping your data? This free tool gives those pesky crawlers the run-around
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AI bots scraping your data? This free tool gives those pesky crawlers the run-around
"Cloudflare's AI Labyrinth allows websites to protect their original content from unauthorized AI crawlers by confusing them with fake but legitimate-looking AI-generated pages."
"Rather than blocking malicious bots, Cloudflare's approach is to waste their resources without alerting them that they have been thwarted."
Cloudflare has launched AI Labyrinth, a tool designed to protect original content by confusing AI crawlers. This tool generates AI-created web pages that appear legitimate, allowing unauthorized crawlers to waste their computational resources without realizing they have been misled. This innovative approach aims to combat the rising tide of misinformation and protect creators from losing their content to synthetic media, while avoiding the arms race of blocking methods that alert crawlers being targeted. By obscuring the true nature of their actions, unauthorized crawlers can be misled into thinking they’ve successfully scraped content.
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