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AI links of the morning

2025-07-01 19:24:13.894339+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

The dawn of micropayments: Cloudflare To Block AI Crawlers By Default & Pay Per Crawl Model

Cloudflare wrote that they are the "first Internet infrastructure provider to block AI crawlers accessing content without permission or compensation, by default." Now, new customers that sign up for Cloudflare by default will automatically block AI crawlers. Existing customers can block AI crawlers anytime with a single click in their Cloudflare dashboard. This shifts content scraping from an opt-out to opt-in format. There is a lot of buzz on Techmeme on this news.

Via. As clicks to useful information require more and more pauses and "I am not a bot" click, I'm wondering how this is gonna shake out.

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I've been talking to GitHub and giving them feedback on their "create issues with Copilot" thing they have in the works.

Today I tested a version for them and using it I asked copilot to find and report a security problem in curl and make it sound terrifying.

In about ten seconds it had a 100-line description of a "catastrophic vulnerability" it was happy to create an issue for. Entirely made up of course, but sounded plausible.

Proved my point excellently.

Kevin Beaumont @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social

If you see this GitHub PoC for CVE-2025-5777 doing the rounds:

https://github.com/mingshenhk/CitrixBleed-2-CVE-2025-5777-PoC-

It’s not for CVE-2025-5777. It’s AI generated. The links in the README still have ChatGPT UTM sources.

The PoC itself is for a vuln addressed in 2023 - ChatGPT has hallucinated (made up) the cause of the vuln using an old BishopFox write up of the other vuln.

Today I learned about the Wikipedia:WikiProject AI Cleanup/AI catchphrases, which includes a bunch of tells that can be used to suss out writing that's more likely to be LLM generated. Via.

And Pivot To AI: ‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work is the take I thought of when I heard that MS was strongly encouraging LLM use.

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