Cloudflare is luring web-scraping bots into an ‘AI Labyrinth’
Rather than block web scrapers, Cloudflare invites them to trawl a web of useless ‘AI-generated nonsense.’ ...
One company's devious plan to stop AI web scrapers from stealing your content
Cloudflare, a global network service that helps some of the biggest websites in the world deliver content to users, has ...
AI bots scraping your data? This free tool gives those pesky crawlers the run-around
On Wednesday, the company released AI Labyrinth, a tool that uses AI-generated content to "slow down, confuse, and waste the ...
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OECD Report on Data Scraping and AI – What Companies Can Do Now as Policymakers Consider the Issues
The power of large language models (LLMs) that enables generative AI derives from vast quantities of data. Much of this data ...
Anthropic’s chatbot Claude can finally search the web now
The company announced Wednesday that web search is now available for paid US users in a “feature preview,” and to enable it, ...
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Why the Open Web Is at Risk in the Age of AI Crawlers
The Internet has always been a space for free expression, collaboration, and the open exchange of ideas. However, with ...
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Cloudflare’s Free AI Labyrinth Distracts Crawlers That Could Steal Website Content to Feed AI
Cloudflare used generative AI to build premade websites that can be embedded as an AI Labyrinth in protected websites, ...
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web scraping
It’s no big secret that a lot of the internet traffic today consists out of automated requests, ranging from innocent bots like search engine indexers to data scraping bots for LLM and similar ...
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Crawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js to build reliable crawlers. In JavaScript and TypeScript. Extract data for AI, LLMs, RAG, or GPTs. Download HTML, PDF, JPG, PNG, and ...