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Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots (www.404media.co)
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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.

“It's less like flypaper and more an infinite maze holding a minotaur, except the crawler is the minotaur that cannot get out. The typical web crawler doesn't appear to have a lot of logic. It downloads a URL, and if it sees links to other URLs, it downloads those too. Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself - the crawler downloads those new links. Nepenthes happily just returns more and more lists of links pointing back to itself,” Aaron B, the creator of Nepenthes, told 404 Media.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Are you sure about that?

Screenshot from 2 seconds ago. ChatGPT -4 MINI

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Just tried and got the expected answer :

In chess, looking at your opponent’s pieces is not only allowed but essential to playing the game. Observing the placement and movement of your opponent’s pieces helps you plan your strategy and anticipate their moves. However, if you’re referring to situations like secretly peeking at a hidden plan (in correspondence chess, for example) or breaking rules in a specific chess variant, then it could be considered cheating. But in standard chess, observing your opponent’s pieces is part of fair play.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Damn, I guess it ever did.

I wish my knee-jerk dismissal of anything remotely anti-AI didn't get in my way so often.