Cloudflare is a service that acts as a proxy between a user request for a website and the server that delivers the content. It was originally designed to shorten the distance content has to travel globally by creating a network of caches worldwide. The same technology is also used to protect websites from spammers and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Now it's offering to protect websites from AI bots. "This feature will automatically be updated over time as we see new fingerprints of offending bots we identify as widely scraping the web for model training." The article also offers an analysis of bot activity (pictured).
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