Cloudflare has introduced a new tool called AI Labyrinth, designed to combat the increasing threat of AI web crawlers. The tool uses generative AI to create fake pages and AI-generated mazes that trap and distract these crawlers, preventing them from accessing and potentially stealing website content. AI Labyrinth is available to all Cloudflare customers, including those on the free tier, offering a new approach to cybersecurity. The rise of AI crawlers has been causing significant issues for website owners, with reports indicating that these bots can account for up to 28% of web traffic. Some open source projects have reported as much as 97 percent of their traffic originating from AI companies' bots. This surge in automated traffic is not only overwhelming server resources but also raising concerns about data privacy and copyright infringement as AI companies use scraped content to train their models. In other AI developments, Google has rolled out its AI Overviews feature in several European countries, including Spain, Austria, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland, and Belgium. This feature uses AI to provide synthesized search results, aiming to enhance the user experience by offering more comprehensive and contextually relevant answers to complex queries. Additionally, the source code for AlexNet, a pioneering AI model developed by Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, and Geoffrey Hinton that marked the beginning of modern deep learning, has been made publicly available. This release, facilitated by Google and the Computer History Museum, allows developers and researchers to study and build upon the foundational work that has shaped the current landscape of AI technology, particularly through the use of GPUs.
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