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AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by 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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[–] 8 points 1 year 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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