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Since ICE List is a MediaWiki site, it can have an API. I asked various AIs to write a web app that would scrape and mirror the data on the ICE List wiki.

The AI made a fast, bare-bones interface to the cloned data. I prompted it to make a nice README with instructions on how to host your own clone.

Once data is distributed, it's hard to destroy.

Disclaimer: I just prompted this. I didn't actually write it.

There's a painful amount of hyperbole and even lies in the README, for fairly mediocre code using very out of date style. Doesn't even manage to install on a mac out of the box.

If it had said "A quick tool to mirror the ice wiki for days retention purposes" then it would have been accurate and honest. If it had used a generic format rather than a database, and included a torrent link asking for more seeders, it would have been valuable. Instead it's painful