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Cloudflare is now offering a feature called “AI labyrinth” where it serves a series of AI generated pages to AI crawlers that ignore robots.txt directives.
They’re essentially serving AI slop to AI crawlers that are training off of a website’s content without permission.
Deliciously devious. 
Ars Technica · Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts
@HugeGameArtGD@mastodon.gamedev.place"'No real human would go four links deep into a maze of AI-generated nonsense,' Cloudflare explains. 'Any visitor that does is very likely to be a bot, so this gives us a brand-new tool to identify and fingerprint bad bots.'"
Human visitors should not read documentation hosted on Cloudflare I guess?