Justin du Coeur on Nostr: Hah -- a delightful reminder that it is very, very easy to waste #AI companies' money ...
Hah -- a delightful reminder that it is very, very easy to waste #AI companies' money if you are so minded:
https://www.404media.co/developer-creates-infinite-maze-to-trap-ai-crawlers-in/I haven't looked into this particular solution, but the idea is straightforward -- I'm halfway tempted to put something similar together, just to see what happens.
(Now I'm pondering how to make such a thing efficient to run, while taking up maximum crawler cycles…)
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