Their anti-bot detection is pretty aggressive. The server insists I'm a teapot, and I haven't checked today, but I'm pretty sure I'm at least humanoid shaped.
Excuse me! If that truly is the case, then why are you sending out 418 status codes?
Iocaine: The deadliest poison known to AI
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#12Related thread (and inspiration?):
Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers
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#13HN, the deadliest poison know to sites
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#14Does the name come from The Princess Bride?
It does! I think it's on a FAQ page somewhere.
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#15> Lets make AI poisoning the norm. If we all do it, they won't have anything to crawl. The AI companies are just going to filter out garbage better (hint: they already do), and the crawlers are going to get better at pretending to be human. The only change we'll notice is that the end user's experience has gotten worse.
Better than it would have been if the content sites all go offline do to crushing crawling load...
Remember that it's the AI companies who are causing the pain. Others are just crying out in pain and trying to survive
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#16whoops didn't realize this would block requests from hn after some time but in retrospect it's not surprising