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Cool project: "Nepenthes" is a tarpit to catch (AI) web crawlers.

"It works by generating an endless sequences of pages, each of which with dozens of links, that simply go back into a the tarpit. Pages are randomly generated, but in a deterministic way, causing them to appear to be flat files that never change. Intentional delay is added to prevent crawlers from bogging down your server, in addition to wasting their time. Lastly, optional Markov-babble can be added to the pages, to give the crawlers something to scrape up and train their LLMs on, hopefully accelerating model collapse."

zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/

zadzmo.orgZADZMO code

@tante @dalias
Heh, wookieepedia.org has been functioning this way for me I opened up its robots.txt: it's dynamically generated on demand, ALL links work, and ALL pages exist. It’s generated so much sustained load that I may need to throttle it too!

wookieepedia.orgMain Page - Wookieepedia, the hirsute encyclopedia