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minus-squaretheunknownmuncher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39arrow-down1·15 hours agoIts interesting that we are rebranding conventional web scrapers and bots to “AI Agents”
minus-squareabbadon420@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·14 hours agoThe article explicitly mentions that they’re not talking about those kind of bots. They’re talking about agentic bots, like the ones that search the internet when you ask a chatbot something.
minus-squaretheunknownmuncher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-211 hours ago And the source is Cloudflare, who’s business model depends on the existence of bots, scrapers, DDoSers, and AI agent nuissances
minus-squareilickfrogs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·14 hours agoIt’s all part of the ploy to push identification across the Internet in the coming years.
Its interesting that we are rebranding conventional web scrapers and bots to “AI Agents”
The article explicitly mentions that they’re not talking about those kind of bots. They’re talking about agentic bots, like the ones that search the internet when you ask a chatbot something.
And the source is Cloudflare, who’s business model depends on the existence of bots, scrapers, DDoSers, and AI agent nuissances
It’s all part of the ploy to push identification across the Internet in the coming years.