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AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Mothra@mander.xyz to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world

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Article is a couple months old but I was unaware of tarpits in existence against AI.

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[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago

I'm pretty sure that's what these tarpits are. They set a trap for AI bots and if they fall into it, they are essentially killed by eating the bot owners' resources and by making their output worthless.

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