According to Cloudflare there has been an explosion of AI bot activity. "AI Crawlers generate more than 50 billion requests to the Cloudflare network every day", the company wrote in March. And there is growing concern that some AI crawlers are disregarding existing protocols for excluding bots. In an effort to counter the worst offenders Cloudflare previously developed a system where the worst miscreants would be sent to a "Labyrinth" of web pages filled with AI generated junk. The new system attempts to use technology to protect the content of websites and to give sites the option to charge AI firms a fee to access it.