- Confusion says that cloudflare’s analysis of its AI -crawlers was technically deficient
- Who appears to have been a mix-up with a third-party service used by confusion
- Confused
Confusion AI has accused cloudflare of having miscarriage its web crawlers as malicious bots after the latter claimed that the AI company blured its bot identity using misleading strict and unexpected IP intervals.
In response to CloudFlore’s analysis and testing, confusion declared that the analysis was technically deficient and that the misunderstood non -related traffic.
Confusion has also claimed that its traffic is user-driven, not stealth-scraping or malicious searching, suggesting that Cloudflare has misunderstood modern AI assistant behavior.
Cloudflare gets confusion all of
“It seems that CloudFlare confused confusion with 3-6 m daily requests for non-related traffic from browser base, a third-party cloud browser service, which only occasionally uses for highly specialized tasks (less than 45,000 daily requests),” the company wrote in an X-post.
By beating back on CloudFlares blurring requirements, Perplexity said that the company blurred its own method, even accused the company of drawing a stunt of getting attention.
One of the possible explanations of the confusion reads: “Cloudflare needed a smart advertising moment, and we – their own customer – happened to be a useful name to get them one.”
“This controversy reveals that CloudFlore’s systems are fundamentally inadequate to distinguish between legitimate AI assistants and actual threats,” the post continues.
In the post, confusion also offered context on how AI crawlers work: When a user asks a question, the AI agent does not pick up the information from a central database, but rather retrieves in real time from the relevant sites. This contrasts with traditional web crawling, “where Crawler’s systematically visits millions of pages to build massive databases, whether someone asked for the specific information or not.”
In the future, confusion calls Cloudflare to participate in dialogue instead of publishing incorrect information about its practice.
