Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoThe AI company Perplexity is complaining their bots can't bypass Cloudflare's firewallwww.searchenginejournal.comexternal-linkmessage-square209linkfedilinkarrow-up1226arrow-down10
arrow-up1226arrow-down1external-linkThe AI company Perplexity is complaining their bots can't bypass Cloudflare's firewallwww.searchenginejournal.comDavriellelouna@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square209linkfedilink
minus-squareFauxLiving@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoIt isn’t opt in. You can block all bot page scraping, and also block user initiated AI tools or you can block no traffic. There isn’t an option to block bot page scraping but allow user initiated AI tools. Because, as the article points out, Cloudflare is not able to distinguish between the two
minus-squareubergeek@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThats not true, I just viewed my panel in CF, and Perplexity is an optional block, which by default is off.
minus-squareFauxLiving@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoThey must be A/B testing a new feature then, it’s not on mine
minus-squareubergeek@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoLog into your dashboard, click “AI Audit”, and you’ll see the toggles.
It isn’t opt in.
You can block all bot page scraping, and also block user initiated AI tools or you can block no traffic.
There isn’t an option to block bot page scraping but allow user initiated AI tools.
Because, as the article points out, Cloudflare is not able to distinguish between the two
Thats not true, I just viewed my panel in CF, and Perplexity is an optional block, which by default is off.
They must be A/B testing a new feature then, it’s not on mine
Log into your dashboard, click “AI Audit”, and you’ll see the toggles.