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Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots (www.404media.co)
submitted 6 days ago by FlyingSquid to c/technology
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A pseudonymous coder has created and released an open source “tar pit” to indefinitely trap AI training web crawlers in an infinitely, randomly-generating series of pages to waste their time and computing power. The program, called Nepenthes after the genus of carnivorous pitcher plants which trap and consume their prey, can be deployed by webpage owners to protect their own content from being scraped or can be deployed “offensively” as a honeypot trap to waste AI companies’ resources.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (10 children)

It does, because it is poisoning AI training data.

[–] HexadecimalSky 6 points 6 days ago (9 children)

I think the point is it doesn't specifically target "AI trainers" but web crawlers, which are used by more then just A.I. trainer, for example search engines.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Search engine crawlers generally respect robots.txt, so if you add a robots.txt entry to disallow all crawlers from getting into the maze, effectively only AI crawlers will go there.

[–] HexadecimalSky 2 points 5 days ago

Oh, okay, I didn't know that, thank you.

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