AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
arstechnica.com AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.
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I imagine AI scrapers fetching the robots.txt, reading, ingesting, reflecting on, considering, rereading, and finally throwing it straight in the trash before scraping all your data. Because fuck you, that's why.
Trying really hard to feel something other then ...meh fuck 'em.
The characterisation of Nepenthes as malware and a
novel AI attack method
Is blatantly false, this is a tool for defence against AI crawlers that do not respect robots.txt