Cloudflare debuts one-click nuke of web-scraping AI

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Take that for ignoring robots.txt!

Cloudflare on Wednesday offered web hosting customers a way to block AI bots from scraping website content and using the data without permission to train machine learning models.

"We hear clearly that customers don’t want AI bots visiting their websites, and especially those that do so dishonestly. To help, we’ve added a brand new one-click to block all AI bots.". When placed in a website's root directory, automated web crawlers are expected to notice and comply with directives in the file that tell them to stay out.

Cloudflare said its machine-learning scoring system rated the disguised Perplexity bot below 30 consistently over a period from June 14 through June 27, indicating that it's" These bot tend to use the same tools and frameworks for automating website visits. And with a network that sees an average of 57 million requests per second, Cloudflare has ample data to determine which of these fingerprints can be trusted.

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