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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: 0s | source
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hubraumhugo ◴[16 Jan 25 20:02 UTC] No.42730154[source]▶
The arms race between AI bots and bot-protection is only going to get worse, leading to increasing infra costs while negatively impacting the UX and performance (captchas, rate limiting, etc.).

What's a reasonable way forward to deal with more bots than humans on the internet?

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1. readyplayernull ◴[16 Jan 25 20:03 UTC] No.42730177[source]▶
It's time to level up in this arms race. Let's stop delivering html documents, use animated rendering of information that is positioned in a scene so that the user has to move elements around for it to be recognizable, like a full site captcha. It doesn't need to be overly complex for the user that can intuitively navigate even a 3D world, but will take x1000 more processing for OpenAI. Feel free to come up with your creative designs to make automation more difficult.