Interesting coverage of the recent appearance of "tarpits" like Nepenthe to trap AI crawlers. Several different perspectives provide critical analysis, not just boosterism.
But then there's this claim by the article author:
"But efforts to poison AI or waste AI resources don't just mess with the tech industry. Governments globally are seeking to leverage AI to solve societal problems, and attacks on AI's resilience seemingly threaten to disrupt that progress"
Um, disrupt what progress?
Is there an example of a "societal problem" being solved by AI (by which I assume they mean GenAI based on LLMs, which is what the tarpits are trying to thwart)?
It seems more likely at this point that #GenAI will cause societal problems, not solve them.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/
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