Comment on 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.

AtomicHotSauce@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• aviationeast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’re not wrong.

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  • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ok, I now need a screensaver that I can tie to a cloudflare instance that visualizes the generated “maze” and a bot’s attempts to get out.

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    • x1gma@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You probably just should let an AI generate that.

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They should program the actions and reactions of each system to actual battle bots and then televise the event for our entertainment.

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  • singletona@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Then get bored when it devolves into a wedge meta.

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    • Mirshe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Somehow one of them still invents Tombstone.

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      • singletona@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Putting a chopped down lawnmower blade in front of a thing, and having it spin at harddrive speeds is honestly kinda terrifying…

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, it is far less environmentally friendly than warrior bots made of metal, plastic, and electronics full of nasty little things like batteries blasting, sawing, burning and smashing one another to pieces.

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