Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts
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Summary
Web security provider Cloudflare has introduced AI Labyrinth, a tool that generates fakeAI-created content to thwart bots’ attempts to collect data for AI training.
Rather than merely blocking bots, the system leads them through a maze of fake pages that appear realistic, wasting the bots’ resources.
Cloudflare avoids blocking bots because it warns the operators of these bots that they have been detected.
The content provided to bots is generated using real scientific facts to avoid false information, and is sourced from Cloudflare’s own Workers AI service.
The AI Labyrinth is a more sophisticated honeypot, as opposed to traditional honeypots which are easily detectable by modern bots.
These false links prevent indexing by search engines but are attractive to data-scraping bots.
