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The first anti-AI tarpit. Rewritten in Python. Traps LLM crawlers in an infinite maze of fake pages and Markov babble. - NEPENTHESWEB/nepenthes-py

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[-] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 8 points 7 hours ago

It's sad that we've had to come to this.

That the AI tech bros think they're such hot shit that they shouldn't have to play nicely with everyone else, and that the courts of the world seem to be largely backing them up.

They're being allowed to destroy and plunder human culture to feed their machines, things you would get thrown into the slammer for doing.

So do whatever you have to do to preserve your corner of the internet. Whether that's battening down the hatches and defending yourself with Cloudflare/Anubis (for the love of god don't use reCapcha as you're just giving Google data to train Gemini), or attacking them with something like Nepethes, then do it.

The more effort they have to spend scraping, or time spent cleaning up their models, is more investor money thrown into the black-hole - and they've only got so much of it to spare.

[-] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 hours ago

120%. If I had the funds to buy the hardware, I'd have a whole room dedicated to running 500 instances of these alone. xD

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