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Written by Bongolian on 2025-01-23 at 19:52

Jason Koebler: 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. The program, called #Nepenthes after the genus of carnivorous pitcher plants which trap and consume their prey, …"

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Written by Bongolian on 2025-01-23 at 19:53

"…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."

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