Article is a couple months old but I was unaware of tarpits in existence against AI.

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    10 hours ago

    It should be illegal for bots to ignore robots.txt tbh, like fuck AI bros in general but the ones who go out of their way to scrape sites that make it clear they don’t want to be scraped… Hope their shitty LLMs get poisoned beyond saving. And that it costs them a fortune in electricity bills. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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      5 hours ago

      It is illegal to derive work from copyrighted material without permission, yet there they are, doing it…

      Or Facebook, outright pirating books for their AI …

  • RangerJosey@lemmy.ml
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    12 hours ago

    Someone build an intentionally rogue AI. A Hunter Killer that seeks out other AI and destroys them.

    Think Rabids from Cyberpunk.

    A Datakrash is an inevitability. It will happen. But if we do it early. Before the world becomes too networked. That might just save us a lot of lives and hardship down the road.

    Is AI Accelerationism a thing yet? Cuz it should be.

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      7 hours ago

      I’m pretty sure that’s what these tarpits are. They set a trap for AI bots and if they fall into it, they are essentially killed by eating the bot owners’ resources and by making their output worthless.