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Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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post #175

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Perfect for spammers, scammers and domain squatters, who can now automate their activities even more. Can’t think of any other uses for this given the current state of LLM ‘agents’, though I can’t wait for the next report of something like ‘openclaw registered 1000 domains for me without asking and now cloudflare won’t refund me’.

LLM generation in general provides the most use to scammers and the like. Generate emails which people won't read, generate articles which are just honeypots or rip-offs, generate images to said articles, generate more and more spam. Every legit use case for LLM practically requires that human would verify the result manually, at least briefly. But spammers can enjoy skipping that step, since content was never a main…

I disagree frankly, as the next wave is clearly fully autonomous businesses.

Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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post #51

The reason this blog post does not come with any concrete examples how to use this enablement for useful and constructive things tells you something very important - it is a toy and they do not know who and how they will use it. It is cool feature but to what end? Buying a domain is not something you have to do daily to require any kind of automation. I am also not sure who Stripe Atlas for. I am genuinely confused.…

Perfect for spammers, scammers and domain squatters, who can now automate their activities even more. Can’t think of any other uses for this given the current state of LLM ‘agents’, though I can’t wait for the next report of something like ‘openclaw registered 1000 domains for me without asking and now cloudflare won’t refund me’.

The new goal is to flood the Internet with so much junk that human-created content can be sold back to us in a walled garden.

Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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That is ironic. Four years ago, cloudflare didn’t let human me have an account / buy domains because I signed up, never used a single service but didn’t respond to a request to verify my drivers license > This account is in violation of Cloudflare's Terms of Service. Specifically fraud. The suspension is permanent. (Yes that’s really it. Sincerely. No “but I also abused X”)

This conflict is popping up everywhere. There is a push by a lot of companies to allow agentic use of their services (and new companies explicitly offering "X for agents"), ignoring the fact that "agent" means the same thing as "bot" which we've spent the last couple of decades actively filtering out. Will be interesting to see how it plays out.

Solid insight. What was once profane is now sacred. And it feels like it happened overnight. Lots to ponder on that.

The catalyst is probably the consent of payment processors, if I had to speculate.

Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LLM generation in general provides the most use to scammers and the like. Generate emails which people won't read, generate articles which are just honeypots or rip-offs, generate images to said articles, generate more and more spam. Every legit use case for LLM practically requires that human would verify the result manually, at least briefly. But spammers can enjoy skipping that step, since content was never a main…

I disagree frankly, as the next wave is clearly fully autonomous businesses.

Agreed, "fully autonomous businesses" is the evolutionary next step for spam.

Spamcorp services are the future. Don't resist it, that would be futile.

Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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Investors usually expect that non-US founders incorporate in the US, and usually expect Delaware. There are other states that are more friendly to tax avoidance. Delaware is mostly preferred because it's a known quantity with mature regulation. Investors don't want to deal with dozens of different legal regimes, they want the one that they know about.

do you work on a cloudflare delaware-awareness project? Delawareness?

Nope, nothing like it. I'm an Astro maintainer and I work on web frameworks.

Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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This is good for spammers and bots. They can automate creating websites, pay Cloudflare. Others pay Cloudflare to protect them from spammers and bots (and misidentified humans)

The more chaos on the Internet, the more Cloudflare earns. It is a horrible company.

They are still losing money unlike Akamai, so there is hope they go bankrupt.

Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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post #116

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Lets remind the purpose of incorporating in Delaware is legal tax evasion, so that we don't not have pensions, health insurance or anything nice, really. Rename to Greedware.

The primary purpose of incorporating in Delaware is less about taxes and more that Delaware is the "Silicon Valley" of corporate law - incredible concentration of professionals, infrastructure, and intangibles. Any dispute you have will generally be handled better, faster, and cheaper by Delaware courts than they would be anywhere else. I'll quote my good friend who is a startup M&A lawyer: "I'd go so far as to say t…

Nevada makes it much harder to sue corporate officers when they do malfeasance. Wyoming has tons of privacy perks for the officers (similar to cayman island accounts). “Perks” though also convert into signaling for the intent of the founders.

Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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Infrastructure provisioning is a key ingredient of agentic AI viruses: https://www.ericburel.tech/blog/ai-virus-agent This may be the first steps of the worst wave of spamming campaign ever seen on the Internet. We'll need to reinvent how we connect and communicate via computers.
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