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https://www.wired.com/story/cloudflare-tools-detect-block-ai-bots/
New Cloudflare Tools Let Sites Detect and Block AI Bots for Free
Internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare is launching a suite of tools that could help shift the power dynamic between AI companies and the websites they crawl for data. Today it’s giving all of its customers—including the estimated 33 million using its free services—the ability to monitor and selectively block AI data-scraping bots.
That preventative measure comes in the form of a suite of free AI auditing tools it calls Bot Management, the first of which allows real-time bot monitoring. Customers will have access to a dashboard showing which AI crawlers are visiting their websites and scraping data, including those attempting to camouflage their behavior.
Looking for a good bad example?
Want to Search Donald Trump’s Truth Social Posts? A New Site Is Here to Help.
Washingtonian: “Do you regularly check Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform? Unless you’re a faithful Trump supporter or a journalist who covers the former president, Chris Herbert would bet that you probably don’t. That’s why Herbert—a web developer based in DC—and his team at the conservative, anti-Trump nonprofit Defending Democracy Together created Trump’s Truth, a database that tracks all of the content that Trump posts to Truth Social. Users of the site, which launched today, can search Trump’s Truth by keyword, filter the results by date, and access content that Trump has deleted from his page. Trump’s Truth was conceived back in April, when Herbert noticed a number of factors that made Truth Social difficult to monitor. For one thing, its content doesn’t feed into Google search results like tweets or Instagram posts do. Its search engine is not very advanced. Trump deletes posts fairly frequently. And, according to Herbert, the site’s most glaring deficiency is that it doesn’t offer video transcripts or image descriptions: Many of Trump’s posts contain videos and photos, but without text content attached to these uploads, there hasn’t been a way to for search engines to index them up to this point. “By transcribing it, I think I really am offering an interesting service to people who want to see what [Trump] is saying without literally having to sit through a 20-minute video—and there’s thousands of them,” Herbert says…”
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