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  • The Register: Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk content

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/21/cloudflare_ai_labyrinth/ Source: The Register Title: Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk content Feedly Summary: Slop-making machine will feed unauthorized scrapers what they so richly deserve, hopefully without poisoning the internet Cloudflare has created a bot-busting AI to make life hell for AI crawlers.… AI…

  • Hacker News: "Wait, not like that": Free and open access in the age of generative AI

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    Source URL: https://www.citationneeded.news/free-and-open-access-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/ Source: Hacker News Title: "Wait, not like that": Free and open access in the age of generative AI Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the challenges and concerns regarding the open access movement in the context of generative AI, specifically how AI companies exploit freely licensed…

  • Hacker News: CAPTCHAs: ‘a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service’

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    Source URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/a-2023-study-concluded-captchas-are-a-tracking-cookie-farm-for-profit-masquerading-as-a-security-service-that-made-us-spend-819-billion-hours-clicking-on-traffic-lights-to-generate-nearly-usd1-trillion-for-google/ Source: Hacker News Title: CAPTCHAs: ‘a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service’ Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The study from UC Irvine critically evaluates Google’s reCAPTCHA v2, highlighting its inefficacy in preventing bot traffic while raising significant privacy concerns. The findings indicate that reCAPTCHA…