Cloudflare’s AI Labyrinth Wants Bad Bots To Get Endlessly Lost
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Summary
Cloudflare has developed AI Labyrinth, which protects websites against malicious bots, scrapers and AI crawlers that ignore instructions such as ‘no crawl’.
The platform uses generative AI to create a complex maze of data, including useless, but plausible, human-like data, to waste the time and resources of the crawlers, while Cloudflare learns about them.
The approach alerts bad actors to the fact they’ve been identified if they are blocked, but this new approach means they stay undetected while Cloudflare learns about them.
However, critics suggest it will not be effective for long as the attackers will simply have to adapt, and the AI space is so fast moving that any defensive strategy is soon obsolete.
They also point to the problem of bad actors using the useless but plausible data generated by the Labyrinth as training data, thus increasing the amount of misinformation online.
