The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch

Well, if you have a better way to solve this that’s open I’m all ears. But what Cloudflare is doing is solving the real problem of AI bots. We’ve tried to solve this problem with IP blocking and user agents, but they do not work. And this is actually how other similar problems have been solved. Certificate authorities aren’t open and yet they work just fine. Attestation providers are also not open and they work just fine.

AI poisoning is a better protection. Cloudflare is capable of serving stashes of bad data to AI bots as protective barrier to their clients.

You don't think that the AI companies will take efforts to detect and filter bad data for training? Do you suppose they are already doing this, knowing that data quality has an impact on model capabilities?