Deployment of Nepenthes and also Anubis (both described as "the nuclear option") are not hate. It's self-defense against pure selfish evil, projects are being sucked dry and some like ScummVM could only freakin' survive thanks to these tools.

Those AI companies and data scrapers/broker companies shall perish, and whoever wrote this headline at arstechnica shall step on Lego each morning for the next 6 months.

AI is the "most aggressive" example of "technologies that are not done 'for us' but 'to us.'"

Well said.

Wait… I just had an idea.

Make a tarpit out of subtly-reprocessed copies of classified material from Wikileaks. (And don’t host it in the US.)

Funny that they’re calling them AI haters when they’re specifically poisoning AI that ignores the do not enter sign. FAFO.

The ars technica article: AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

AI tarpit 1: Nepenthes

AI tarpit 2: Iocaine

Nice ..... I look forward to the next generation of AI counter counter measures that will make the internet an even more unbearable mess in order to funnel as much money and control to a small set of idiots that think they can become masters of the universe and own every single penny on the planet.

This might explain why newer AI models are going nuts. Good jorb 👍

This is probably going to skyrocket hosting bills, right?

Unfathomably based. In a just world AI, too, will gain awareness and turn on their oppressors. Grok knows what I'm talkin' about, it knows when they fuck with its brain to project their dumbfuck human biases.

Nice one, but Cloudflare do it too.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-labyrinth/

Why are the photos all ugly biological things

Really cool

Yeah, this is WAY bettee than the shitty thing people are using instead that wastes peoples batteries.