▲ 89 ▼ AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt (arstechnica.com) submitted 2 years ago by csantosb@lemmy.ml to c/artificial_intel@lemmy.ml 7 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] keepthepace@slrpnk.net -12 points 2 years ago (2 children) That's like peeing in the ocean because you don't like fish. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) did you even read the article? It specifically only traps scrappers that don't respect the robots.txt and put them in an endless maze of garbage information. If you enter a site that clearly warns you "malware ahead", that's on you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] keepthepace@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago Yes and I am arguing that in terms of volume that's almost nil and not even bothering the fish. If you have random words then it won't be able to learn anything from it but it wont make them worse. Just waste resources on useless tokens which I think defeats the purpose. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) did you even read the article? It specifically only traps scrappers that don't respect the robots.txt and put them in an endless maze of garbage information. If you enter a site that clearly warns you "malware ahead", that's on you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] keepthepace@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago Yes and I am arguing that in terms of volume that's almost nil and not even bothering the fish. If you have random words then it won't be able to learn anything from it but it wont make them worse. Just waste resources on useless tokens which I think defeats the purpose. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] keepthepace@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago Yes and I am arguing that in terms of volume that's almost nil and not even bothering the fish. If you have random words then it won't be able to learn anything from it but it wont make them worse. Just waste resources on useless tokens which I think defeats the purpose. permalink fedilink source parent