Cloudflare Launches AI Labyrinth to Combat Unauthorized AI Scrapers

The generative AI-powered tool creates decoy pages to mislead bots, protect content, and identify malicious actors.

AI Labyrinth uses generative AI to generate plausible but irrelevant content, luring unauthorized bots into wasting resources.
The tool doubles as a honeypot, helping Cloudflare identify and fingerprint malicious bots for future mitigation.
AI-generated decoy pages are accessed through hidden links visible only to suspected bots, ensuring minimal impact on human users.
Cloudflare processes over 50 billion requests from AI crawlers daily, highlighting the scale of the scraping issue.
AI Labyrinth is available to all Cloudflare users, including those on the free tier, and is designed to evolve with future iterations.