Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts

Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts(arstechnica.com)

38 points by rosstex 1 year ago | 6 comments

mdaniel 1 year ago |

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43421525

zitsarethecure 1 year ago |

I guess AI's talking to AI's about gibberish is the future of all energy use.

pfdietz 1 year ago |

Is anyone deliberately generating nonsense, or worse malignant falsehoods, to pollute the crawlers?

Twirrim 1 year ago | |

Yup, using iocaine https://lib.rs/crates/iocaine. AI crawlers are getting text generated by a markov chain built from Moby Dick.

Is it effective? Eh, probably not. Fun though.

cozzyd 1 year ago | | |

Well now that Ross ulbricht has been pardoned I'm not sure iocaine is all that useful

theragra 1 year ago | |

Lawless or lawful? I don't understand why people hate crawlers that much. I understand arguments about ones that violate robots.txt, but not correct ones.