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Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth
How Cloudflare uses generative AI to slow down, confuse, and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and other bots that don’t respect “no crawl” directives.
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AI & Machine LearningSecurity & Privacy2025
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 2025 | Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth by pabs3 | 238 | 146 |
| Mar 20, 2025 | Cloudflare: Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth by ambigious7777 | 65 | 1 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 15 Hacker News comments by 15 different people, from Mar 2025 to Jun 2026.
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- rodneyosodo · Jun 23, 2026
- willx86 · Mar 26, 2026
- mattdanger · Jan 14, 2026
- SchemaLoad · Jan 13, 2026
- inerte · Nov 16, 2025
- ncruces · Aug 21, 2025
