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"type": "entry",
"author": {
"name": "Jared White",
"url": "https://jaredwhite.com/",
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},
"url": "https://jaredwhite.com/links/20250322/trap-the-bots",
"published": "2025-03-22T18:31:10-07:00",
"content": {
"html": "<blockquote>\n <h2><a href=\"https://www.theverge.com/news/634345/cloudflare-ai-labyrinth-web-scraping-bots-training-data\"></a></h2>\n\n <p>Cloudflare, one of the biggest network internet infrastructure companies in the world, has announced AI Labyrinth, a new tool to fight web-crawling bots that scrape sites for AI training data without permission. The company says in a blog post that when it detects \u201cinappropriate bot behavior,\u201d the free, opt-in tool lures crawlers down a path of links to AI-generated decoy pages that \u201cslow down, confuse, and waste the resources\u201d of those acting in bad faith.</p>\n\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>We are truly in a next-generation digital arms race\u2014having to defend ourselves against the spam and the slop of adversarial <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/generativeai\">#generativeAI</a>. I sure wish it were otherwise, but this is reminding me of the Windows virus epidemic of the 90s and the comment/trackback spam epidemic of the 2000s. <strong>Ugh.</strong></p>",
"text": "Cloudflare, one of the biggest network internet infrastructure companies in the world, has announced AI Labyrinth, a new tool to fight web-crawling bots that scrape sites for AI training data without permission. The company says in a blog post that when it detects \u201cinappropriate bot behavior,\u201d the free, opt-in tool lures crawlers down a path of links to AI-generated decoy pages that \u201cslow down, confuse, and waste the resources\u201d of those acting in bad faith.\n\n\n\nWe are truly in a next-generation digital arms race\u2014having to defend ourselves against the spam and the slop of adversarial #generativeAI. I sure wish it were otherwise, but this is reminding me of the Windows virus epidemic of the 90s and the comment/trackback spam epidemic of the 2000s. Ugh."
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"name": "Link: Trap Those Bad Bots!",
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