SMRTR AIJul 9, 2025Daily.dev

Anubis: Fighting off the hordes of LLM bot crawlers

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Anubis, a new web protection tool, aims to deter AI crawlers by making web scraping prohibitively expensive. The software challenges visitors with a cryptographic puzzle, insignificant for humans but resource-intensive for bot farms. This clever response to increasing AI data harvesting could significantly impact companies relying on large-scale web scraping for their language models.

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