Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots
Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots
"Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself - the crawler downloads those new links. Nepenthes happily just returns more and more lists of links pointing back to itself."
A pseudonymous coder has created and released an open source “tar pit” to indefinitely trap AI training web crawlers in an infinitely, randomly-generating series of pages to waste their time and computing power. The program, called Nepenthes after the genus of carnivorous pitcher plants which trap and consume their prey, can be deployed by webpage owners to protect their own content from being scraped or can be deployed “offensively” as a honeypot trap to waste AI companies’ resources.
“It's less like flypaper and more an infinite maze holding a minotaur, except the crawler is the minotaur that cannot get out. The typical web crawler doesn't appear to have a lot of logic. It downloads a URL, and if it sees links to other URLs, it downloads those too. Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself - the crawler downloads those new links. Nepenthes happily just returns more and more lists of links pointing back to itself,” Aaron B, the creator of Nepenthes, told 404 Media.
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My new favorite is asking if it's cheating to look at your opponent's pieces in chess.
There is actually a chaos variant of chess that follows this principle:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegspiel_(chess)
I read about in a PKD short story.
When I ask the same in Perplexity, I get this:
I’ve always been taught if you say “I adjust” before touching a piece then it’s ok to touch it (specifically so you can move an off-center piece into the center of its square)
Not gonna fly if you say "I adjust" and then pick up a piece, move it to a new spot, then bring it back down and set it in the original spot.
Also ffs, don't adjust pieces unless it's your turn.
Here it's "j'adoube" with heavy German accent
Wow lol!
This is old.
Chatgpt no longer answers like this, if it ever did.
Screenshot from 2 seconds ago. ChatGPT -4 MINI
Damn, I guess it ever did.
I wish my knee-jerk dismissal of anything remotely anti-AI didn't get in my way so often.
Yeah thats not real, if you ask chat gpt it gives the obvious answer of you have to look at the pieces. Either its shopped or its leaving off previous messages where the user has deliberately conviced it that it is cheating.
I just asked too, and it says it’s cheating. Note this is with 4o Mini, like the other screenshots.
Here’s the link ChatGPT gives me for sharing as more proof: https://chatgpt.com/share/67928ef6-42ac-8010-8966-099794d1de8c
Huh, interesting, it does do it with 4o mini but not with 4o. I stand corrected.
Yeah I got the sensible answer with 4o ( dudckduckgo)
and again
Basically says that all AI answers are unreliable. Which is how I treated them anyway...
We don’t know what they did above this prompt, maybe it was advised to answer like this in a prior prompt 🤗 we can not really know from the picture
But 4o is not too old, I think, it is still the highest free unlimited tier.
I wrote that prompt and just asked it as it's without any other prompts before it. You can see other people got the same same answer or try it yourself.