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.

kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bitcoin?

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• zovits@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.”

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  • kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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