"We wanted to create a new way to thwart these unwanted bots, without letting them know," Cloudfare said of its "honeypot" ...

Fed up with the millions of AI bots crawling the internet for data, Cloudflare is now fighting back to beat them at their own ...

Headlines trumpet generative AI’s ability to produce text, images and even music. But beyond the glitz, a quieter and less ...

AI web crawling bots are the cockroaches of the internet, many developers believe. FOSS devs are fighting back in ingenuous, ...

Generative AI companies are not only taking data without permission, they're also sabotaging the sites they're stealing from.

Cloudflare has announced AI Labyrinth, a new feature that combats unauthorised AI scraping by pushing crawlers into never ...

AI crawlers are eating up web resources, and site administrators are looking for defence mechanisms to protect against big ...

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The reason, the outfit wrote in a blog post Tuesday, isn't due to growing demand from knowledge-thirsty humans, but from automated, data-hungry scrapers looking to train AI models. "Our ...

AI bots contribute heavily to web traffic, with millions of requests disrupting website performance, increasing costs, and ...