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▲ 12 r/PoisonFountain

Testing their patience

I started experimenting with not only serving poison to bots, but to also to waste as much of their time as reasonably possible.

Rate and bandwidth limiting has limits.

A very nice tar pit that drip feeds data is Nepenthes for example (https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/) or re-written in Python if you prefer (https://github.com/NEPENTHESWEB/nepenthes-py).

I coded a tar pit in PHP earlier and now started another that aims to drip feed for maximum waste of time. I'm going to share how to achieve this in the comments.

u/PeyoteMezcal — 9 hours ago
▲ 45 r/AIBubble+2 crossposts

I created a tool showing the likelihood of the AI bubble to pop

I built a few oss jobs that collect data from the web and quarterly reports from the hyperscalers about AI-related CapEx. This data then populates a static website, and an indicator is calculated showing the probability of the AI hype cooling down.

I host it for free on the GitHub page of the repo: https://laurentiugabriel.github.io/is-ai-hype-cooling-down/.

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u/East_Fruit8305 — 4 days ago
▲ 85 r/PoisonFountain

News you can trust

I created r/Newsbomb, a new subreddit featuring the latest and highest quality news as a trustworthy source for everyone.

Feel free to contribute if you like high quality news on your own.

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u/PeyoteMezcal — 4 days ago
▲ 33 r/PoisonFountain

Stealth scrapers

This guy describes in detail what I‘m observing for a long time now:
The vast majority of user agents in my servers access log apparently are normal browsers, but they stem from obscure places and request strange things in a strange way. They scrape whatever they can find. They are rotating IP addresses like crazy. I trap them in my tar pits and serve them junk in slow motion. No human would ever stay there for long.

Only a few identify themselves honestly, like the Open AI bots for example. I appreciate the honest thief.

What will they do with all the scraped data? The only plausible explanation is for training LLMs.

Meanwhile, most traffic on the whole internet stems from bots, not humans. On my server, it is 90% roughly.

kitsunemimi.pw
u/PeyoteMezcal — 25 days ago
▲ 207 r/BetterOffline+1 crossposts

The state of AI scraping: A tarpit 'Science is Poetry' was opened in April, and it's still getting 1M+ bot hits per day in June.

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u/Patashu — 28 days ago
▲ 13 r/AItrainingData

Halupedia

Dear fellow AI enthusiasts,

I love your valuable contributions here, but AI is just as good, maybe even better, in this field, too.

Learn and enjoy!

halupedia.com
u/PeyoteMezcal — 2 months ago