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Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers

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646 points blendergeek | 1 comments | 16 Jan 25 13:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.219s | source
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quchen ◴[16 Jan 25 14:32 UTC] No.42725651[source]▶
Unless this concept becomes a mass phenomenon with many implementations, isn’t this pretty easy to filter out? And furthermore, since this antagonizes billion-dollar companies that can spin up teams doing nothing but browse Github and HN for software like this to prevent polluting their datalakes, I wonder whether this is a very efficient approach.
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1. iugtmkbdfil834 ◴[16 Jan 25 18:24 UTC] No.42728923[source]▶
I forget which fiction book covered this phenomenon ( Rainbow's End? ), but the moment it becomes the basic default install ( ala adblocker in browsers for people ), it does not matter what the bigger players want to do ; they are not actively fighting against determined and possibly radicalized users.