• XenGi@feddit.org
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    15 hours ago

    Pretty easy. It’s called a tar pit. Kind of like a honey pot.

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        11 hours ago

        tar pits target the scrapers.

        were you talking also about poisoning the training data?

        two distinct (but imo highly worthwhile) things

        tar pits are a bit like turning the tap off (or to a useless trickle). fortunately it’s well understood how to do it efficiently and it’s difficult to counter.

        poisoning is a whole other thing. i’d imagine if nothing comes out of the tap the poison is unlikely to prove effective. there could perhaps be some clever ways to combine poisoning with tarpits in series, but in general they’d be deployed separately or at least in parallel.

        bear in mind to meaningfully deploy a tar pit against scrapers you usually need some permissions on the server, it may not help too much for this exact problem in the article (except for some short term fuckery perhaps). poisoning this problem otoh is probably important