GitHub - TecharoHQ/anubis: Weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests using proof-of-work to stop AI crawlers
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Weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests using proof-of-work to stop AI crawlers - TecharoHQ/anubis

I just started using this myself, seems pretty great so far!

Clearly doesn’t stop all AI crawlers, but a significantly large chunk of them.

  • zutto@lemmy.fedi.zutto.fiOPEnglish
    18·
    12 days ago

    If you remember the project I would be interested to see it!

    But I’ve seen some AI poisoning sink holes before too, a novel concept as well. I have not heard of real world experiences of them yet.

    • ltxrtquq@lemmy.mlEnglish
      23·
      12 days ago

      I’m assuming they’re thinking about this

      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, 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.

      Which was posted here a while back