Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums
by marcus0x62 on Monday December 30, 2024 @01:18PM
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Self plug, but I made this to deal with bots on my site: https://marcusb.org/hacks/quixotic.html. It is a simple markov generator to obfuscate content (static-site friendly, no server-side dynamic generation required) and an optional link-maze to send incorrigible bots to 100% markov-generated non-sense (requires a server-side component.)
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Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums
by gagik_co on Monday December 30, 2024 @03:50PM
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This is cool! It'd have been funny for this to become mainstream somehow and mess with LLM progression. I guess that's already happening with all the online AI slop that is being re-fed into its training.
Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums
by gs17 on Monday December 30, 2024 @01:40PM
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I tested it on your site and I'm curious, is there a reason why the link-maze links are all gibberish (as in "oNvUcPo8dqUyHbr")? I would have had links be randomly inserted in the generated text going to "[random-text].html" so they look a bit more "real".
Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums
by marcus0x62 on Monday December 30, 2024 @01:46PM
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Its unfinished. At the moment, the links are randomly generated because that was an easy way to get a bunch of unique links. Sooner or later, I’ll just get a few tokens from the markov generator and use those for the link names.
I’d also like to add image obfuscation on the static generator side - as it stands now, anything other than text or html gets passed through unchanged.