Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts

[mdaniel]

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

[zitsarethecure]

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

[pfdietz]

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

[Twirrim]

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.

[theragra]

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.