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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] 5 points 2 days ago

Rather funny that some of these are in code if(useragent == chatgpt) kind of sillyness. You need heiuristics to detect scrapers, because they'll just report their user agent as the average user's browser.