Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth

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Introduced AI Labyrinth, a new mitigation approach that uses AI-generated content to slow down, confuse, and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and other bots that don't respect "no crawl" directives. This involves using Workers AI with open source models to pre-generate HTML pages, storing them in R2, and integrating them as hidden links via custom HTML transformation. AI Labyrinth also acts as a next-generation honeypot, identifying and fingerprinting bad bots by analyzing which crawlers follow these hidden pathways, feeding data into machine learning models for improved bot detection.