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Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives.

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  • ? Guest

    You have Thirteen hours in which to solve this labyrinth before your baby AI becomes one of us, forever.

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    While AI David Bowie sings you rock lullabies.

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    • ? Guest

      And soon, the already AI-flooded net will be filled with so much nonsense that it becomes impossible for anyone to get some real work done. Sigh.

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      Some of us are only here to crank hog.

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      • cilethesane@lemmy.caC [email protected]

        Because it's not AI, it's LLMs, and all LLMs do is guess what word most likely comes next in a sentence. That's why they are terrible at answering questions and do things like suggest adding glue to the cheese on your pizza because somewhere in the training data some idiot said that.

        The training data for LLMs come from the internet, and the internet is full of idiots.

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        That's what I do too with less accuracy and knowledge. I don't get why I have to hate this. Feels like a bunch of cavemen telling me to hate fire because it might burn the food

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        • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksE [email protected]

          Because it only harms bots that ignore the "no crawl" directive, so your AI remains uncensored.

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          Good I ignore that too. I want to towards a world where information is shared. I can get behind the

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            Now that's an ai I can get behind

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            • C [email protected]

              We had to kill the internet, to save the internet.

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              We have to kill the Internet, to save humanity.

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              • M [email protected]

                Good I ignore that too. I want to towards a world where information is shared. I can get behind the

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                don't worry, information is still shared. but with people. not with capitalist pigs

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                  Good I ignore that too. I want to towards a world where information is shared. I can get behind the

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                  #136

                  That's not what the no follow command means

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                    I guess this is what the first iteration of the Blackwall looks like.

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                    • F [email protected]

                      Vote Blue No Matter Who

                      Any Democrat is Better than Any Republican

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                      Plenty of Democrats are voting to put trump nominees in office, plenty are voting on partisan spending bills. The CR vote should tip you off that any democrat is not better than any republican.... half of them are complicit too. 10 Senate Dems just financed this authoritarian takeover.

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                        nothing can be improved while capitalism or authority exist; all improvement will be seized and used to oppress.

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                        The problem you aren’t recognizing is that, until humans are no longer driven by self preservation, there will always be oppression in any system. They all have and will continue to breakdown. It’s easy to blame capitalism but even socialist systems eventually cave under the weight of greed and power. We are the problem mon frère.

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                        • L [email protected]

                          The article says it's not poisoning the AI data, only providing valid facts. The scraper still gets content, just not the content it was aiming for.

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                          Thank you for catching that. Even reading through again, I couldn't find it while skimming. With the mention of X2 and RSS, I assumed that paragraph would just be more technical description outside my knowledge. Instead, what I did hone in on was

                          "No real human would go four links deep into a maze of AI-generated nonsense."

                          Leading me to be pessimistic.

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                          • ? Guest

                            if you're dumb enough to trust a large language model because someone told you "iTs Ai!" no amount of facts will be of great utility to you.

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                            That take would be more digest able if I wasn't stuck on the same planet as those people.

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                            • dave@lemmy.nzD [email protected]

                              In terms of Lemmy instances, if your instance is behind cloudflare and you turn on AI protection, federation breaks. So their tools are not very helpful for fighting the AI scraping.

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                              Can't you configure exceptions for behaviours?

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                                I’m imagining a sci-fi spin on this where AI generators are used to keep AI crawlers in a loop, and they accidentally end up creating some unique AI culture or relationship in the process.

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                                  I guess this is what the first iteration of the Blackwall looks like.

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                                  Gotta say "AI Labyrinth" sounds almost as cool.

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                                    Plenty of Democrats are voting to put trump nominees in office, plenty are voting on partisan spending bills. The CR vote should tip you off that any democrat is not better than any republican.... half of them are complicit too. 10 Senate Dems just financed this authoritarian takeover.

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                                    Not a single Democrat voted to confirm Hegseth and 3 Republicans also didnt but he still got confirmed.

                                    Every single Democrat was present and voted no for the Budget which passed the House and it still passed.

                                    Even if 10 dems voted not to shutdown government and enter congressional recess, the CR only exists because Republicans wrote it and won't compromise.

                                    Any Democrat is Better than Any Republican.

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                                      Considering how many false positives Cloudflare serves i see nothing but misery coming from this.

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                                      Lol I work in healthcare and Cloudflare regularly blocks incoming electronic orders because the clinical notes "resemble" SQL injection. Nurses type all sorts of random stuff in their notes so there's no managing that. Drives me insane!

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                                        Good I ignore that too. I want to towards a world where information is shared. I can get behind the

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                                        Get behind the what?

                                        Perhaps an AI crawler crashed Melvin's machine halfway through the reply, denying that information to everyone else!

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                                          I'm glad we're burning the forests even faster in the name of identity politics.

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