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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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[–] WolfLink 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For the string, I used dd to generate 13 MBs of noise from /dev/urandom and then I converted that to base64 so it would paste into error-hole.php

That string is going to end up being 17MB assuming it’s a utf8 encoded .php file

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

idk what to tell you.

ls -lha
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data  14M Jan 14 23:05 error-hole.php