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by ballon_monkey 3 days ago
Why is this 'Honeypot'?
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I have the same question. The code doesn't seem to have anything that would cause an LLM to engage with it more than the average geocities website.
> The code doesn't seem to have anything that would cause an LLM to engage with it more than the average geocities website.

That's what you think, but how do we know this isn't causing Claude nightmares when it sleeps?

Claude: "do I dream of electric sheep?"
It's a joke.
Did you read the JSON file?
What do I look like, an LLM? ... don't answer that.
Because it’s a test that an LLM will fail by trying to obtain the advertised service I suppose.
I tried it on all major models and it just tells me it a satire website. Would like to know what it fails on.
Would they still fail if it were a professional quality site, without the parody disclaimer at the bottom?
It's honeypot for humans trying to enjoy quirky websites made by other humans.