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AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt (arstechnica.com)

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Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I also "don't know a lot about this", but I do know that your browser receiving a 200 means that everything worked properly. From what I can tell, this technique is replaces any and every 404 response with 200, thus tricking the browser (and therefore the user) into thinking the site is working as expected every time they run into a missing webpage on this site.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The user doesn’t see the status code, they see what’s rendered to the screen.