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Soon: US Republicans introduce law to prohibit the use of AI tar pits; cite copyright law and freedom of speech.
They will cite the Magna Carta and Articles of Confederation.
"The Bible says..."
It's weird how this is written to make them sound more like animals or insects than a computer algorithm... "thrash around" lol
I understood it as "thrashing" in a computer science sense. When RAM fills up and the kernel has to swap aggressively, that's called thrashing
It's because the tool is named Nepenthes, after the pitcher plants, into which victims fall, cannot escape, and thrash around until they die and are digested.
Rage Against the Machine.
Post needs accessibility.
Previous posts on same topic
- Nepenthes: a dangerous tarpit to trap LLM crawlers – OSnews
- Nepenthes - A tarpit to catch AI web crawlers
- Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots
- AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
- AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
- AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
- AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
- Finally setup Nepenthes and caught my first bot
That's excluding all the posts like OP's lacking searchable text due to inaccessibility.
Hell yes! This is exactly what I have wanted to happen.
Ah. I see the war has begun.
Hell Yeah!
Let's go!
Hell yeah, that rules
Cyberpunk as fuck.
I am so confused by the low link lol.
- "AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI (!)" - Ohmy god poor AI :<
- "...that ignore robots.txt!" - ...oh, so illegal AI...?
- "Attackers explain-" - YEAH! THE EVIL AGRESSIVE
- "how anti-spamdefense became an AI weapon" - ...folk trying to defend from spam...?
FFS they try to paint people protecting themselves as evil but are keeping facts too much and it becomes an absolute confusing mess xD
It's not really that confusing.
The software equivalent of armed masked men are illegally breaking in to your personal property, stealing everything that isn't nailed down and ripping all the nails out of everything that is, and then leaving with it in order to reuse it for personal profit. It is, in all ways, similar to a home invasion. These invaders are then telling you that you're a bad person because you don't want them invading your property and stealing all your shit.
Its highly illegal, everyone involved with it knows for a fact that it's highly illegal, so they best they can do is try and spin propaganda around it because nobody has the balls to try and arrest Sam Altman, et al about it.
If you pick the lock on my front door and enter my home without permission I am going to put a 12 gauge slug through your solar plexus. If I could do the same to an AI crawler I would.
There is a way to stop the IA Crawlers, but it involves using dynamite and a hard risk of landing in prison.
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Here is a demo for anyone interested. It's deliberately slow to load.
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Please, someone make us super easy to implement version of this.
I wonder how effective they are. When I first heard about ssh targets (like endlessh) I thought it was an awesome idea. But as I started to look at some analyzed logged data it turns out they are either slightly effective to not at all effective. If simple logic can be written so a dumb ssh bot programed to find vulnerable ssh servers can easily avoid a tar pit, I would think it is pretty trivial for an AI crawler to do the same thing. I am interested to see some analyzed data on something like this after several months on the open internet.
Super effective, I tried both of these on a couple of domains I have and the amount of hits they get vs how long crawlers stay in them is insane. I use the AI robot.txt file and if they ignore it will spend hours scraping randomized nonsense text from unlimited internal links. I'm sure large legit ai companies have protection, but I get a lot of traffic from Africa and Asia in particular. Not sure if it's the source or a VPN, but I just look at the geos and tend not to dig deep.
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Büt whāt æbœùt typīñg lîke thìß?
I read this like static over a radio
Appreciate you using the ß correctly instead of using it as a replacement for "B"
But this only has one s. :)
I know, but you can just read it as a long s as if they're talking funny lol
Doesn't work either
The text you provided translates to:
"But what about typing like this?". This style of writing involves replacing standard Latin letters with similar-looking characters from other alphabets or adding diacritical marks (accents, tildes, umlauts) available in the Unicode standard.
🤔❓🧑💻⌨️👉📝❓
Even if the LLM dosent recognise it, the Human ghost workers will train/translate it
You're only hindering people who have trouble reading
You didn't use the thorn!
I believe someone else on Lemmy has claimed that character as their own.
Now, is this a docker image I can run?
Been meaning to ask, I’m on a shitty Wordpress host that just lets me upload PHP; but what’s the cheapest kind of host that would actually let me do something like run a docker container?
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