Cloudflare launches anti-AI bots tools to combat website scraping

A new free tool has been released by publicly listed cloud service company Cloudflare with the goal of preventing bots from gathering information from websites hosted on its network in order to create artificial intelligence (AI) models.

In a blog post announcing this update, the Cloudflare team also shared some data about how its clients are coping with the increase in bots that employ content scraping to create generative AI models.

Reports say all cloud service provider users, including those on free plans, have access to the new tool.