Loti AI, a deepfake detection service, has announced that its technology for protecting digital reputations will now be available for free to all users, not just public figures and celebrities. The company, which began operations in 2022, aims to combat the rising threat of AI-generated deepfakes, which can distort the likeness of individuals without their consent. With its platform, Loti AI scans the internet daily for harmful content and employs a four-step process for users to safeguard their identities, achieving a 95 percent success rate for takedowns within just 17 hours for those who used the auto-takedown feature. Loti AI’s CEO, Luke Arrigoni, emphasized the urgency of protecting personal data and images in an increasingly dangerous online environment.
Cloudflare has introduced a new mitigation strategy called AI Labyrinth, designed to counteract bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. This AI-generated content approach aims to confuse and waste the resources of malicious bots by enticing them to follow links leading to irrelevant pages. With AI crawlers generating over fifty billion requests daily, this innovative solution provides a proactive method to defend against these unauthorized activities. Notably, AI-generated content now comprises forty-seven percent of all posts on Medium, according to estimates. By allowing Cloudflare customers, including those on the free plan, to opt into AI Labyrinth, the company enhances its bot detection capabilities while improving user experience. As bots evolve, Cloudflare is committed to developing this technology further to ensure even better protection against automated scraping.
Why do we care?
Loti AI making its deepfake detection and takedown service free to everyone marks a shift in what digital identity protection looks like—not just for celebrities, but for everyone with a digital presence. That includes MSPs, their employees, and their customers. Loti AI is helping to normalize personal identity protection as a service, which is a valuable tool in an MSP’s layered security narrative.
Cloudflare’s AI Labyrinth is a clever and strategic defense mechanism in the escalating arms race against scraping bots and unauthorized AI data collectors. Fifty billion AI crawler requests per day is more than a technical annoyance—it’s a cost center in bandwidth, security, and server resources. MSP clients who publish proprietary blogs, whitepapers, or product data may unknowingly be feeding LLMs or competitive intelligence tools. Protecting that IP is now a business continuity and strategic differentiation issue.
Labyrinth doesn’t stop crawlers—it distracts them. Some bots may evolve quickly, recognizing the honeypots and adapting. This becomes a cat-and-mouse game, and if MSPs don’t tune settings properly, there’s a risk of confusing good bots or harming legitimate SEO. It’s clever, but reactive.
