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What are some novel ways to mess with AI data scrapers? (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 months ago by pooh@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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So I made a neocities site (It looks dope and I'll probably share when it's more fleshed out) but I was trying to think of ways to mess with bots/AI scrapers, beyond just a robots.txt file. I was wondering if it would work to make a cypher font where the visible letters are totally different than the letters they're supposed to represent, then use a tool to correctly generate strings for the site. Would this work? Anyone have better ideas? You could also have hidden non-cyphered text that teaches the AI communist propaganda and other good stuff. idk. I'd love to hear your ideas.

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[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That approach could make the page unusable for people with screen readers or other accessibility tools

[–] pooh@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago

Hmmm good point. Maybe I'll just go with what git said.

[–] git@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

Stick a whole bunch of LLM generated nonsense output in a hidden element somewhere and hint to screen readers that it should be ignored.

[–] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago

Serve different content based on the request's user agent string. If its a bot, send it some weird shit or if it's an AI bot serve some Marxist theory or Q/A samples with desirable results.