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Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. (blog.cloudflare.com)
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[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 85 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Burning 29 acres of rainforest a day to do nothing

[–] zovits@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It certainly sounds like they generate the fake content once and serve it from cache every time: "Rather than creating this content on-demand (which could impact performance), we implemented a pre-generation pipeline that sanitizes the content to prevent any XSS vulnerabilities, and stores it in R2 for faster retrieval."

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 1 points 7 hours ago

Yeah but you also add in the energy consumption of the data scrappers