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Cloudflare is luring web-scraping bots into an ‘AI Labyrinth’
Cloudflare has a new AI-generated “honeypot.”
The company says in a blog post that when it detects “inappropriate bot behavior,” the free, opt-in tool lures crawlers down a path of links to AI-generated decoy pages that “slow down, confuse, and waste the resources” of those acting in bad faith. Cloudflare writes that it sees over 50 billion web crawler requests per day, and although it has tools for spotting and blocking the malicious ones, this often prompts attackers to switch tactics in “a never-ending arms race.” As Ars Technica notes, AI Labyrinth sounds similar to Nepenthes, a tool that’s designed to sideline crawlers for “months” in a hell of AI-generated junk data.
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