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Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit

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Re: Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

I wish if there was some regulation which could force companies who scrape for (profit) to reveal who they are to the end websites, many new AI company don't seem to respect any decision made by the person who owns the website and shares their knowledge for other humans, only for it to get distilled for a few cents.

Re: Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit

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Post by QuantumNomad_ »

splitbrainhack wrote: post #2

-1 for the name

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miasma_theory

Seems a clever and fitting name to me. A poison pit would probably smell bad. And at the same time, the theory that this tool would actually cause “illness” (bad training data) in AI is not proven.

Re: Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit

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Post by sd9 »

madeofpalk wrote: post #8

Is there any evidence or hints that these actually work? It seems pretty reasonable that any scraper would already have mitigations for things like this as a function of just being on the internet.

Even it did work, I just can't bring myself to care enough. It doesn't feel like anything I could do on my site would make any material difference. I'm tired.
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