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AI scrapers request commented scripts

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255 points ColinWright | 3 comments | 31 Oct 25 15:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.997s | source
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bigbuppo ◴[31 Oct 25 20:02 UTC] No.45776094[source]▶
Sounds like you should give the bots exactly what they want... a 512MB file of random data.
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1. aDyslecticCrow ◴[31 Oct 25 21:15 UTC] No.45776784[source]▶
Scraper sinkhole of randomly generated inter-linked files filled with AI poison could work. No human would click that link, so it leads to the "exclusive club".
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2. oytis ◴[31 Oct 25 21:45 UTC] No.45777048[source]▶
Outbound traffic normally costs more than inbound one, so the asymmetry is set up wrong here. Data poisoning is probably the way.
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3. zahlman ◴[31 Oct 25 22:07 UTC] No.45777218[source]▶
> Outbound traffic normally costs more than inbound one, so the asymmetry is set up wrong here.

That's what zip bombs are for.