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Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts

arstechnica.com

38 points by rosstex 9 months ago · 8 comments

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mdaniel 9 months ago

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43421525

zitsarethecure 9 months ago

I guess AI's talking to AI's about gibberish is the future of all energy use.

pfdietz 9 months ago

Is anyone deliberately generating nonsense, or worse malignant falsehoods, to pollute the crawlers?

  • Twirrim 9 months ago

    Yup, using iocaine https://lib.rs/crates/iocaine. AI crawlers are getting text generated by a markov chain built from Moby Dick.

    Is it effective? Eh, probably not. Fun though.

    • cozzyd 9 months ago

      Well now that Ross ulbricht has been pardoned I'm not sure iocaine is all that useful

  • theragra 9 months ago

    Lawless or lawful? I don't understand why people hate crawlers that much. I understand arguments about ones that violate robots.txt, but not correct ones.

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