Article is a couple months old but I was unaware of tarpits in existence against AI.
Fellas, does it make you a hater, to not want trespassers?
I mean, you don’t have to wait for them to ignore instructions, just put these traps everywhere.
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)_/¯
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 …
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.
Okay, so I’m definitely not the most knowledgeable hacker, but the issue with an active AI hunter, to hunt and kill instead of setting tarots, is that you’d have to actually create an AI capable of of hacking the scraper.
This would mean tracing it back to the actual source and then hacking that source to destroy the scraper, and I’d bet that’s not an easy task even for a human.
But yeah honestly, creating an AI capable of hacking and fucking up certain systems and then setting it loose on the net really could cause a Datakrash like event if it can replicate itself like a virus on the hardware it infects.
Even better if you could find some way to have it mutate as it goes along but that’s pretty far fetched even for this already far fetched hypothetical.
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.
I am a proud AI hater
Setting the halting problem against AI.
HACF
Halt And Cath Fire.
