Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Sep 16, 2024

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

Show threaddmi 💽 Sep 16, 2024

@foone i’ve been returning a 302 to a 10GB binary file from hetzner’s speedtest page, but honestly.. maybe I should?

all of my pages already contain prompt injection (in multiple places, even)

Show threadEmelia/EmiSep 16, 2024
@domi @foone My approach uses the wonderful "100GB of zeros compressed into 10MB and served with transport compression headers" which usually makes most poorly-written bots fuck off in short order when they OOM...
Show threadLisPiSep 17, 2024
@becomethewaifu @foone @domi This makes me wonder if Firefox actually has anything in consideration of that issue.
Show threadsunz*Sep 26, 2024
@lispi314 it does not. ask me how i know 🙃
Show threadLisPiSep 28, 2024
@arisunz Disappointing but unsurprising.
Show threadsunz*
@lispi314 i mean tbf neither does chromium
Sep 28, 2024 at 2:22pmWeb
Show threadLisPiSep 28, 2024
@arisunz I did somewhat expect that too.