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Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts


New approach punishes AI companies that ignore “no crawl” directives.

This identification feeds into a machine learning feedback loop—data gathered from AI Labyrinth is used to continuously enhance bot detection across Cloudflare's network, improving customer protection over time. However, while Nepenthes' anonymous creator described it as "aggressive malware" meant to trap bots for months, Cloudflare positions its tool as a legitimate security feature that can be enabled easily on its commercial service. Many of these crawlers collect website data to train large language models without permission from site owners, a practice that has sparked numerous lawsuits from content creators and publishers.

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