When Cloudflare accused Paper Ai searches Ai of SCRAPING STEALTHAIN On Monday, while ignoring a specific way of the site to block, this is not the obvious case shallow the shallow AI wild crawler.
Many people come defense perpleks. He argued that worried about accessing a hopeful website, while controversial, can be received. And this is a controversy that will surely grow as an Agent Agent Internet Flood: Is the agent accessible a website for the user treated like a bot? Or as a human that makes the same request?
Cloudflare is known for supplying anti-bot security and other web security services for millions of websites. Key, Cloudflare test cases involved in the new website with a new domain that has never been ridden by the bot-bot blocked by a bot, and then asks with the website content. And worried about answering the question.
The Cloudflare researcher finds a AI search engine that is used “a public browser intended to get rid of Google Chrome on the Macos” when the web is blocked. CEO Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince Posted Research on X, Write, “Some AI companies can be found ‘act like North Korean harm. Time for names, embarrassment, and hard block.”
But many people who do not agree with Prince’s evaluation if this is a bad thing. Someone who defends on the site Like x and Hacker News The following cloudflare is a cloudflare is AI access common websites when the user asked about the specific website.
“If I am a human request, then I have to show the content,” one person Hacker News wrote, add, “Why don’t access websites in your name different from different laws categories like a Firefox legal browser?”
Britten Summer Formerly Rejected to TechCrunch that the bot is a company and is called Cloudflare blog sending sales pitch for Cloudflare. Then on Tuesday, worried Issuing a Blog In defenses (and generally attack Cloudflare), claiming the behavior of third party services using occasionally.
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But the credentials of the perpelling posting creation the appeal as an online defender.
“The difference between automatic and fetch-driven users are not only technical – that is about the access information on the open web,” said the post. “This controversy states that the Cloudflare system is not suitable to distinguish between legal AI assistant and threats.”
The puppxity accusation is unfair, as well. One argument that the prince and Cloudflare are used to call the perplection method is the opening of the same way.
“Openai is an instance of AI major company who follows this best practice. They appreciate the new robots.txt pronouns or a new screen block. And chatgg agent Prince Write in postSee rankings-.
Web Bot What Cloudflare support standards are developed by the user’s internet task forces to make cryptography methods to identify AVI web requests.
The debate is an Internet reship activity. When TechCrunch Before Reporting, Finding Bots to Make A Hard Content To Train AI Model has been a menacemainly for a smaller site.
For the first time in the Internet history, The current bot activity is an exceptional human activityWith the AI traffic accounting more than 50%, according to the waters of the evil bottle of imperva released last month. Most of these activities have come from LLMS. But the report also finds wicked bots 37% of all Internet traffic. This activity consisting of all from continuous scraping for unauthorized login attempts.
Until LLMS, Internet Receive can and should block the bot activity provided how often use Captchas and other services (such as Cloudflare). The website also has a clear incentive for working with a good actor, such as goverbot, guiding what cannot be installed through robots.txt. Google pushes the Internet, who sends traffic to the site.
Now, LLM that eats a lot of traffic. Predict gartner the volume of the search engine It will drop 25% by 2026. Currently Humans tend to clicking the website link from the LLMS on the most expensive point for the website, which is ready to perform transactions.
But if humans Adopt Agent As the industry forecast technology – to organize your journey, a book reservation, and shop for us – what is the website you interact with your business? The debate in X is taken perfect dilemma:
“I want to be willing to visit the public content for me to give you a request / task!” wrote one person In response to Cloudflare spread calls.
“What if the site owners don’t want? They just want you to (for) to visit the house, see the items” Argued anotherThe point that the owner of the site that creates the content wants to traffic and potential advertising earnings, so it cannot remove perpleks.
“This is what I can’t see the ‘firm’ browsing ‘Browsing – a more difficult problem than people think. Most of the website owners will only block,” The third predicted.
