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books-bread-and-brigandage:

anarchistmemecollective:

post by @amychu on bluesky “Basically traps Al crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison Al models” attached to an article by ars technica with a close up photo of an insect dissolving in a carnivorous plant and headline “Al haters build tarpits to trap and trick Al scrapers that ignore robots.txt: Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an Al weapon.”ALT

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

If you are going to discrinately harvest anything on the internet, you cant complain about what people put on the internet.

You do after all as they say “Get what you pay for”.