AI companies cause most of traffic on forums

Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums by throwaway_fai on Monday December 30, 2024 @12:38PM (#42551493)

What if people used a kind of reverse slow-loris attack? Meaning, AI bot connects, and your site dribbles out content very slowly, just fast enough to keep the bot from timing out and disconnecting. And of course the output should be garbage.

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Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums by ku1ik on Monday December 30, 2024 @02:02PM (#42552379)

Nice idea!

Btw, such reverse slow-loris “attack” is called a tarpit. SSH tarpit example: https://github.com/skeeto/endlessh

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Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums by herval on Monday December 30, 2024 @01:26PM (#42552058)

A wordpress plugin that responds with lorem ipsum if the requester is a bot would also help poison the dataset beautifully

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Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums by bongodongobob on Monday December 30, 2024 @01:56PM (#42552318)

Nah, easily filtered out.

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Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums by throwaway_fai on Monday December 30, 2024 @03:39PM (#42553250)

How about this, then. It's my (possibly incorrect) understanding that all the big LLM products still lose money per query. So you get a Web request from some bot, and on the backend, you query the corresponding LLM, asking it to generate dummy website content. Worm's mouth, meet worm's tail.

(I'm proposing this tongue in cheek, mostly, but it seems like it might work.)

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