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   Ars Technica (arstechnica@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 10:09:20 JST Ars Technica

   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.
   https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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     Leszek (lpryszcz@genomic.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 10:09:58 JST Leszek

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     @arstechnica I enabled nephentes 2 weeks ago and added robots.txt after a week.
     #Amazon bot continues to crawl, ignoring robots.txt, currently over 200k bullshit pages. Other bots as well, but to smaller extent.
     #OpenAI bot appeared, ignored robots.txt, but stopped after a few thousands requests, so I guess they indeed actively recognise tarpits. Or at least the one I use.

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     Kevin Freitas (kevinfreitas@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 10:10:08 JST Kevin Freitas

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     @arstechnica For y'all's consideration: my simple wordpress AI poison plugin.

     https://kevinfreitas.net/tools-experiments/

     #AI #LLM #GPT

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     Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: (bookwar@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 22:00:52 JST Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:

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     @arstechnica

     > AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers...
     > AI haters

     The words you looked for are "AI-survivors".

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     clacke@libranet.de is my main (notclacke@fedia.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 10:17:11 JST clacke@libranet.de is my main

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     A comment on the internet said: "I'm not much if an IT person. Could someone explain this in nautical terms?"
     
     I had to respond, of course, having once been a sailor myself.

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     clacke@libranet.de is my main (notclacke@fedia.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 10:17:39 JST clacke@libranet.de is my main

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     Aye, a tarrrr pit is one from which you don't get very farrrr, because once you realize where you arrrr, you're already stuck in the tarrr. It's a sirrren's call that promises you a golden dorrr, but it's all just a lurrrre, and not what you were looking forrrr. It's a bait and a hook with the promise of treasure, but inside each chest is just another chest, it's a cruise that is also a test, and if you fail the test you'll never rest, you'll be haunting that pit forever morrre, like the Flying Dutchman, never returning to shorrre.

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