Cloudflare tightens screws on site-gobbling AI bots

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When robots.txt just ain't cutting the mustard

Cloudflare on Monday expanded its defense against the dark arts of AI web scrapers by providing customers with a bit more visibility into, and control over, unwelcome content raids.to improve upon the not very effective robots.txt mechanism, a way websites can ask, but not require, bots to behave.The idea is to provide customers with analytics data about crawlers that harvest data for AI training and inference so better decisions can be made about whether to embrace the bots or turn them away.

"AI Data Scraper bots scan the content on your site to train new LLMs," said Rhea."Your material is then put into a kind of blender, mixed up with other content, and used to answer questions from users without attribution or the need for users to visit your site."Heart of glass: Human genome stored for 'eternity' in 5D memory crystal, AI training is akin to"money laundering for copyrighted data.

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