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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] 38 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Attack

To me this looks like defense. If the site asks you to not to scrape and you do it anyway, you are the attacker and deserve the garbage.