Jerry Lerman on Nostr: #Cloudflare now punishes #AI companies that purposely ignore their do-not-scan rules. ...
#Cloudflare now punishes #AI companies that purposely ignore their do-not-scan rules.
"... The content served to bots is deliberately irrelevant to the website being crawled, but it is carefully sourced or generated using real scientific facts—such as neutral information about biology, physics, or mathematics ... ". Cloudflare creates this content using its Workers AI service.
"No real human would go four links deep into a maze of AI-generated nonsense," Cloudflare explains. "Any visitor that does is very likely to be a bot, so this gives us a brand-new tool to identify and fingerprint bad bots."
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/cloudflare-turns-ai-against-itself-with-endless-maze-of-irrelevant-facts/?utm_social-type=owned#AI
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