Cloudflare Has Blocked 416B AI Bot Requests Since July 1(wired.com)
wired.com
Cloudflare Has Blocked 416B AI Bot Requests Since July 1
https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-event-matthew-prince-cloudflare/
https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-event-matthew-prince-cloudflare/
What's interesting is that legitimate use cases (accessibility tools, testing automation, research crawlers) get caught in the same net as malicious scrapers. The fingerprinting techniques that detect "non-human" behavior often flag perfectly reasonable automated workflows.
We're heading toward a future where AI agents need to authenticate their intent, not just their identity. Maybe something like signed agent manifests that declare what they're doing and why.