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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.

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[-] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 3 points 22 hours ago

They use Markov chains to generate the text. Which makes the data actively harmful to train on.

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