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Reminds me of those old "Spider Traps" [0][1] that would generate (on access) an endless hierarchy of fake HTML pages full of an endless collection of fake emai
by antiquark 4y ago
Reminds me of those old "Spider Traps" [0][1] that would generate (on access) an endless hierarchy of fake HTML pages full of an endless collection of fake email addresses, to clog up the works of spammers trying to gather email addresses.
Eventually someone's going to write an "AI Trap" that serves up a seemingly infinite forum or reddit-style site, but is actually just generating an endless stream of (non)consciousness from some LLM chatbot.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_trap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_trap
[1] https://www.gsp.com/support/virtual/web/cgi/lib/wpoison/ https://www.gsp.com/support/virtual/web/cgi/lib/wpoison/
- tialaramex 4y agoRobots already have limited enthusiasm for repetitive nonsense with no AI involved. It actually reminds me of an early part of Greg Egan's "Orphanogensis" where the orphan has randomly stumbled into a working resource, but doesn't yet understand how to navigate properly, so it just keeps accessing that same resource, over and over, that one works, other random nonsense doesn't work, that one works, the other random picks do not.. until it finally figures out some basic navigation and then it leaves. An AI like a human may read a few pages of your forum about Invisible Moon Donkeys or whatever, but after not long its interest is sated, the forum's location may be noted down for future interest "OK, more about Invisible Moon Donkeys here" but the AI moves on, what's this "Hacker News" forum about ?