Ai scraping is an effective DDoS on the entire interent
Ai scraping is an effective DDoS on the entire interent
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Excerpt from a message I just posted in a #diaspora team internal f...
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In my experience with bots, a portion of them obey robots.txt, but it's tricky to find the user agent string that some bots react to.
So I recommend having a robots.txt that not only target specific bots, but also tell all bots to avoid specific paths/queries.
Example for dokuwiki
User-agent: * Noindex: /lib/ Disallow: /_export/ Disallow: /user/ Disallow: /*?do= Disallow: /*&do= Disallow: /*?rev= Disallow: /*&rev=
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Would it be possible to detect the
gptbot(or similar) of their user agent, and server them different data?Can they detect that?
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yes, you can match on user agent, and then conditionally serve them other stuff (most webservers are fine with this). nepenthes and iocaine are the current preferred/recommended servers to serve them bot mazes
the thing is that the crawlers will also lie (openai definitely doesn't publish all its own source IPs, I've verified this myself), and will attempt a number of workarounds (like using residential proxies too)
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Generating plausible-looking gibberish require resources. Giving any kind of response to these bots is a waste of resources, even if it's giberish.
My current approach is to have a robots.txt for bots than honor it. And drop all traffic during 24h for IPs used by bots that ignore robots.txt or misbehave.
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Can they detect that they're being served different content though?
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