I keep seeing webmasters talking about how to block AI scrapers (through user agents and IP blocks) and not enough webmasters talking about the far better option of rigging their site to return complete gibberish or transgender werewolf erotica* when AI scrapers are detected.

*depending on which one you think is funnier to poison the AI models with

@foone I accidentally did the latter but my hosting provider got upset and made me do the former :(
@Farbs how do you ACCIDENTALLY make your site transgender werewolf erotica? Are the buttons right next to each other?

@foone I (15 years ago, hopelessly naïve) made a website that's basically an enormous pixel art toilet wall, with public access.

I haven't carefully reviewed all 9,000 interlinked pages but there's gotta be some transgender werewolf erotica in there somewhere.

@Farbs ahh, I see.