Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts (arstechnica.com) 38 points by rosstex 1y ago ↗ HN
[–] pfdietz 1y ago ↗ Is anyone deliberately generating nonsense, or worse malignant falsehoods, to pollute the crawlers? [–] Twirrim 1y ago ↗ Yup, using iocaine https://lib.rs/crates/iocaine. AI crawlers are getting text generated by a markov chain built from Moby Dick.Is it effective? Eh, probably not. Fun though. [–] cozzyd 1y ago ↗ Well now that Ross ulbricht has been pardoned I'm not sure iocaine is all that useful [–] theragra 1y ago ↗ Lawless or lawful? I don't understand why people hate crawlers that much. I understand arguments about ones that violate robots.txt, but not correct ones.
[–] Twirrim 1y ago ↗ Yup, using iocaine https://lib.rs/crates/iocaine. AI crawlers are getting text generated by a markov chain built from Moby Dick.Is it effective? Eh, probably not. Fun though. [–] cozzyd 1y ago ↗ Well now that Ross ulbricht has been pardoned I'm not sure iocaine is all that useful
[–] cozzyd 1y ago ↗ Well now that Ross ulbricht has been pardoned I'm not sure iocaine is all that useful
[–] theragra 1y ago ↗ Lawless or lawful? I don't understand why people hate crawlers that much. I understand arguments about ones that violate robots.txt, but not correct ones.
[–] zitsarethecure 1y ago ↗ I guess AI's talking to AI's about gibberish is the future of all energy use.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 29.5 ms ] threadIs it effective? Eh, probably not. Fun though.