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Full title: I hid a link on my website that only bots can see and told them not to follow it. They broke the rules and in 4 days they went 124,414 levels deep into an endless maze. One bot opened 782,580 doors. I thought this was super interesting, this is how the internet is these days. Thought I’d share.
Unfortunately, it probably cost the maze's owner nearly as much, due to all the traffic.
I’m afraid to ask about the energy footprint. But what the heck, what do we know about it?
What if instead of trying to cost them directly with crawling, you made what they crawl worthless? Could somewhat ironically use an LLM to generate gibberish output for them to feed on. Or a bash script can do it too.
They use Markov chains to generate the text. Which makes the data actively harmful to train on.
That's exactly what Iocaine does.