AI is the "most aggressive" example of "technologies that are not done 'for us' but 'to us.'"

Well said.

Funny that they’re calling them AI haters when they’re specifically poisoning AI that ignores the do not enter sign. FAFO.

Could you imagine a world where word of mouth became the norm again? Your friends would tell you about websites, and those sites would never show on search results because crawlers get stuck.

The ars technica article: AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

AI tarpit 1: Nepenthes

AI tarpit 2: Iocaine

Wait… I just had an idea.

Make a tarpit out of subtly-reprocessed copies of classified material from Wikileaks. (And don’t host it in the US.)

This might explain why newer AI models are going nuts. Good jorb 👍

Nice ..... I look forward to the next generation of AI counter counter measures that will make the internet an even more unbearable mess in order to funnel as much money and control to a small set of idiots that think they can become masters of the universe and own every single penny on the planet.

Nice one, but Cloudflare do it too.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-labyrinth/

Why are the photos all ugly biological things

That's irl cyberpunk ice. Absolutely love that for us.