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One company's devious plan to stop AI web scrapers from stealing your content

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Summary
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63% Informative

Cloudflare , a global network service that helps some of the biggest websites in the world, has devised a new plan to deal with AI companies' web scrapers.

The network service says it's now "trapping misbehaving bots in an AI labyrinth" Bots that don't follow the rules laid out by robots.txt will be punished for doing so.

When AI trains off of AI content, it actually degrades the AI model itself.

VR Score

46

Informative language

32

Neutral language

66

Article tone

informal

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English

Language complexity

43

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possibly offensive

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medium-lived

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