Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives.

Tea · 14 days ago

Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives.

@finitebanjo@lemmy.world · 14 days ago

Cloudflare kind of real for this. I love it.

It makes perfect sense for them as a business, infinite automated traffic equals infinite costs and lower server stability, but at the same time how often do giant tech companies do things that make sense these days?

@ozymandias117@lemmy.world · 14 days ago

Kind of seems like they simply installed this dude’s tarpit from a few months ago

https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/

Dr. Moose · 13 days ago

I’m sorry how does it make sense?

Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives.

Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives.

Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth