Cloudflare has launched a new tool aimed at protecting its clients’ websites from unauthorized scraping by AI bots used by various companies to train large language models (LLMs). This tool, available for free to all Cloudflare users, allows website owners to easily block AI bots that may be harvesting content without permission.
What can Cloudflare’s AI bot block tool do?Cloudflare’s AI bot tool serves several critical functions aimed at protecting websites from unauthorized scraping and ensuring ethical AI usage, such as:
By blocking AI bots, Cloudflare helps protect the integrity and originality of content hosted on its clients’ websites. This is crucial for content creators who want to control how their content is used and ensure it isn’t misused for unauthorized purposes.
Aligns with efforts to enforce transparency in AI usage, ensuring AI companies operate within ethical boundaries, respect website owners’ rights, and adhere to legal standards regarding data usage and copyright.
Cloudflare’s AI bot tool will be continuously updated based on Cloudflare’s global network insights and machine learning models to detect and block new and evolving bot behaviors. Also, it provides mechanisms for reporting misbehaving AI bots, empowering customers to contribute to the ongoing improvement of bot detection and mitigation strategies. The platform’s global network, processing over 57 million requests per second on average, provides robust signals for identifying and mitigating bot-driven threats.
(Image credit)Overall, Cloudflare’s AI bot tool represents a proactive approach to safeguarding online content and promoting responsible artificial intelligence practices across its platform. By offering accessible and effective tools, Cloudflare supports a more secure Internet ecosystem for content creators and users alike.
Top AI bots by request volumeCloudflare also has a list of AI bots, and here are the most active ones:
Despite AI bots’ popularity, many website operators are unaware of the presence and activity of AI crawlers on their sites. In June, AI bots accessed around 39% of the top one million Internet properties using Cloudflare’s services.
Cloudflare’s data shows that only 2.98% of the top Internet properties actively block or challenge AI bot requests, highlighting a gap in proactive measures against unauthorized scraping.
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