Wales said Wikipedia might also consider using technical measures such as Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control that let clients limit when and how AI bots scraping the internet can access their content. He acknowledged this could create a dilemma, given Wikipedia's ideological commitment to open access to knowledge, but stressed that the financial burden must be addressed. #AIstealsYourContent #Wikipedia #WikipediaFoundation #AICrawlControl
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/wikipedia-seeks-more-ai-licensing-deals-similar-google-tie-up-co-founder-wales-2025-12-04/

😁 That's awesome! Fck these AI crawlers and put them into a "maze": https://www.404media.co/developer-creates-infinite-maze-to-trap-ai-crawlers-in/

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Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots

"Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself - the crawler downloads those new links. Nepenthes happily just returns more and more lists of links pointing back to itself."

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