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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.
What's the purpose of doing this as a bot but not declaring the account as a bot account? On other sites, they do it for karma farming, but that doesn't really apply here, right?
Probably just another layer of analytics for engagement bait in other spaces. They can also copy top comments and train LLMs and whatever else every bad actor does to every internet comment site now. They are like a slime mold and grow toward any source of nutrition except it's an n-dimensional maze and the nutrition is influencing public opinion and scamming people.