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.
So what you're implying is this should be implemented in every website in both follow/not follow just to waste their money?
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"You" did no such thing.
Account blocked. Bot, or not.
Can anyone explain what is happening behind the scenes with the "room creation"?? That sounds intriguing. I understand OP is a bot but, is anything described here an actual way of trapping crawlers? How are the crawlers fooled by any of this?
Apparently some bot programmers are assholes who ignore rel="nofollow".
robots.txt only keeps the honest robots out
Is ironic the word for OP being a repost bot? Or is it just expected at this point?
No, you didn’t.
What is this? It's really freaking me out.
Yeah I have OP listed as "repost bot" so if I see something cool I can go check somewhere else for the info.
How do you know?
Look at their profile. 460 posts, 45 comments, in just 1 month. If they aren't automating their posts they need to go touch grass.
An overwhelming number of their posts have titles like "I made this thing", but are clearly just popular posts ripped straight from Reddit.
I also have them tagged as a repost bot. I'm not blocking them, but don't bother trying to engage like the content is somehow organic or original.
Yeah, that's my issue. Like some stuff is cool, I want to ask follow up questions. But OP didn't make or create any of the things they're posting so they'll never know the answer. Which is fine, if you link to the original source. I understand that sometimes you can't link the original source but like, be upfront. I repost things from reddit in !bestofinternetupdates@lemmy.world. But I do it by hand and I link back to the original locations in case people want more information or to see the original source.
You can find the original post on Reddit, somebody has already linked the original post down the thread. This is typical of this user and a few others like sanitation who have become notorious for using Reddit repost bots many times with errors in the repost like not having all of the image or not having any of the post body.
It’s very annoying.
Also interested in how you know. Just commenting to get notificated (:
Man do I hate the age we live in now, where people are actively having to declare war on scrapers like this because AI bros have literally zero respect towards the rest of the internet.
I just hope all that endless maze scraping cost some asshat a decent chunk of money.
Right! This isn't "AI going rogue", it's software agents made and employed by perfectly human psychopaths, doing what they were made to do.
can you turn this into a WP plug-in?
please?
edit: I see now that this is a repost bot agcount. But hey, maybe someone else can design a plugin.
Look up "tarpit" plug ins, most of this is ready to use. I see quite a few when I search, but I'm not familiar with the wordpress world, so can't really recommend one or the other.
Designing impossible mazes for AI to get lost in as a matter of civil defense? What a fucking world we live in…
There's a few open source programs out there for doing precisely this. Iocaine, Nepenthes, and Book of Infinity are the three I know of. There may be more
🔥 this is fine
You know, I wonder if the AI agents are willing to open random zip files they find on websites, and I'm further curious if they're smart enough to avoid a zip bomb.
Can follow JWZ for practical experience on this kind of thing - apparently it is getting so bad that even opening a connection to deliver the zip bombs is getting infeasible now.
It's ironic that you advertise yourself as having "time to lose" but you don't have "time to replace 1st person pronouns with more accurate 3rd person ones."
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