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Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts (arstechnica.com)
38 points by rosstex 452 days ago
3 comments
mdaniel 452 days ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43421525
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zitsarethecure 451 days ago
I guess AI's talking to AI's about gibberish is the future of all energy use.
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pfdietz 452 days ago
Is anyone deliberately generating nonsense, or worse malignant falsehoods, to pollute the crawlers?
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Twirrim 452 days 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.

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cozzyd 451 days ago
Well now that Ross ulbricht has been pardoned I'm not sure iocaine is all that useful
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theragra 451 days 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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