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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. (blog.cloudflare.com)
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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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 8 points 1 day ago

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

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

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 0 points 23 hours ago

I'm sorry how does it make sense?