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I don't understand the reasoning behind the "feed them a bunch of trash" option when it seems that if you identify them (for example by ignoring a robots.txt fi
by mhuffman 1y ago
I don't understand the reasoning behind the "feed them a bunch of trash" option when it seems that if you identify them (for example by ignoring a robots.txt file) you can just keep them hung up on network connections or similar without paying for infinite garbage for crawlers to injest.
- schroeding 1y agoThe "poisoning the data supply" angle seems to be a common motive, similar to tools like nightshade[1] (for actual images and not just garbage data). [1] https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html
- mhuffman 1y agoI get that, but paying to do it?