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Half the Requests Wearing ChatGPT's Name Were Scanning Us for Secrets

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We finally opened Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control last week, mostly out of curiosity about which AI bots actually visit us. It had been collecting quietly the whole time. The first 24-hour window we looked at showed 1,890 requests from AI agents, and 483 of them failed. Compared with the previous day…

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  1. 2026-08-25 11:53 · DEV Community — AI
    Half the Requests Wearing ChatGPT's Name Were Scanning Us for Secrets

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