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AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (15 children)

hmm, i though websites just blocked crawler traffic directly? I know one site in particular has rules about it, and will even go so far as to ban you permanently if you continually ignore them.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (9 children)

You cannot simply block crawlers lol

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (6 children)

hide a link no one would ever click. if an ip requests the link, it's a ban

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

If it weren't so difficult and require so much effort, I'd rather clicking the link cause the server to switch to serving up poisoned data -- stuff that will ruin a LLM.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Visiting /enter_spoopmode.html will choose a theme and mangle the text for any page you next go to accordingly (think search&replace with swear words or santa clause)

It will also show a banner letting the user know they are in spoop mode, with a javascript button to exit the mode, where the AJAX request URL is ofuscated (think base64) The banner is at the bottom of the html document (not nesisarly the screen itself) and/or inside unusual/normally ignored tags. `

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Would that be effective? A lot of poisoning seems targeted to a specific version of an LLM, rather than being general.

Like how the image poisoning programs only work for some image generators and not others.

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