One rebel’s malicious ‘tar pit’ trap is driving AI web-scrapers insane

PC World
Jan 29, 2025, 11:32 am157 pts
Large language model AI companies have been aggressively scraping content off the web for years, and many of them are known for ignoring things like copyright or the robots.txt files used by sites to stop search engines. One designer decided to send these web crawlers on a wild goose chase — by trapping them…

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