Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts (opens in new tab)

(arstechnica.com)

38 pointsrosstex1y ago6 comments

6 comments

mdaniel1y ago

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43421525

zitsarethecure1y ago

I guess AI's talking to AI's about gibberish is the future of all energy use.

pfdietz1y ago

Is anyone deliberately generating nonsense, or worse malignant falsehoods, to pollute the crawlers?

Twirrim1y ago

Yup, using iocaine https://lib.rs/crates/iocaine. AI crawlers are getting text generated by a markov chain built from Moby Dick.

Is it effective? Eh, probably not. Fun though.

cozzyd1y ago

Well now that Ross ulbricht has been pardoned I'm not sure iocaine is all that useful

theragra1y ago

Lawless or lawful? I don't understand why people hate crawlers that much. I understand arguments about ones that violate robots.txt, but not correct ones.

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