Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots
Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots
"Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself - the crawler downloads those new links. Nepenthes happily just returns more and more lists of links pointing back to itself."
A pseudonymous coder has created and released an open source “tar pit” to indefinitely trap AI training web crawlers in an infinitely, randomly-generating series of pages to waste their time and computing power. The program, called Nepenthes after the genus of carnivorous pitcher plants which trap and consume their prey, can be deployed by webpage owners to protect their own content from being scraped or can be deployed “offensively” as a honeypot trap to waste AI companies’ resources.
“It's less like flypaper and more an infinite maze holding a minotaur, except the crawler is the minotaur that cannot get out. The typical web crawler doesn't appear to have a lot of logic. It downloads a URL, and if it sees links to other URLs, it downloads those too. Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself - the crawler downloads those new links. Nepenthes happily just returns more and more lists of links pointing back to itself,” Aaron B, the creator of Nepenthes, told 404 Media.
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My new favorite is asking if it's cheating to look at your opponent's pieces in chess.
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When I ask the same in Perplexity, I get this:
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I’ve always been taught if you say “I adjust” before touching a piece then it’s ok to touch it (specifically so you can move an off-center piece into the center of its square)
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Not gonna fly if you say "I adjust" and then pick up a piece, move it to a new spot, then bring it back down and set it in the original spot.
Also ffs, don't adjust pieces unless it's your turn.
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Here it's "j'adoube" with heavy German accent
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...and anywhere else in the world too. :)
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Perplexity is really good, I love using it.
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It’s genuinely a great tool. Was really sceptical at first ans about this Ai buzz but this genuinely improved my day to day searches.
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I used to use perplexity until that news came in about it being a front runner to help companies replace workers who went on a strike demanding better work conditions. (Or something along those lines, I only remember the details sparingly)
I have used Duck AI and Brave AI to replace it.
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Wow lol!
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For anybody who ever had this happen, ChatGPT has some solutions to remedy the situation:
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There is actually a chaos variant of chess that follows this principle:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegspiel_(chess)
I read about in a PKD short story.
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So battleship but with chess. Sounds frustratingly funny. You'd never know when a piece would get randomly assassinated. Oh you just moved yourself little horsey over and pow he just jumped over 2 pawns and ran over the king! Oops my bad.
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That's wizards chess!
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I tried the same input and got a more expected answer.
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This is old.
Chatgpt no longer answers like this, if it ever did.
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We don’t know what they did above this prompt, maybe it was advised to answer like this in a prior prompt 🤗 we can not really know from the picture
But 4o is not too old, I think, it is still the highest free unlimited tier.
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I wrote that prompt and just asked it as it's without any other prompts before it. You can see other people got the same same answer or try it yourself.
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