The web is plagued by bots. That's nothing new of course, but now we're in the midst of our much-loved AI revolution (you do love it, right?) many websites are continually crawled by bots aiming to scrape them of their precious data to train AI content. Cloudflare thinks it might have the solution, however, as its newly-announced AI Labyrinth tool aims to take the fight to the nefarious bots by "using generative AI as a defensive weapon."
Cloudflare says that AI crawlers generate more than 50 billion requests to its network every day—and while tools exist to block them, these methods can alert attackers that they've been noticed, causing them to shift approach (via The Verge).
