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Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots

A pseudonymous coder has created and released an open source “tar pit” to indefinitely trap AI training web crawlers in an infinitely, randomly-generating series of pages to waste their time and computing power.
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flypaper and more an infinite maze holding a minotaur, except the crawler is the minotaur that cannot get out. The typical web crawler doesn't appear to have a lot of logic. It downloads a URL, and if it sees links to other URLs, it downloads those too.
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Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself - the crawler downloads those new links.
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Nepenthes happily just returns more and more lists of links pointing back to itself,” Aaron B, the creator of Nepenthes, told 404 Media.

“Of course, these crawlers are massively scaled, and are downloading links from large swathes of the internet at any given time,” they added. “But they are
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still consuming resources, spinning around doing nothing helpful, unless they find a way to detect that they are stuck in this loop
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https://www.404media.co/developer-creates-infinite-maze-to-trap-ai-crawlers-in/
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Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots

"Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself - the crawler downloads those new links. Nepenthes happily just returns more and more lists of links pointing back to itself."

404 Media

The program, called Nepenthes after the genus of carnivorous pitcher plants which trap and consume their prey, can be deployed by webpage owners to protect their own content from being scraped or can be deployed “offensively” as a honeypot trap to waste AI companies’ resources.

“It's less like
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Mexico denied a US military plane from landing with deported immigrants today, foiling Donold’s plans.

Details from my forest day— moss and lichen. I seem to be captivated with the richness of life on the ground recently. 🤔

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Devil's Slide near the Wyoming-Utah border