Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts

[rosstex]

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/cloudflare-turns-ai-against-itself-with-endless-maze-of-irrelevant-facts/

[mdaniel]

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43421525

[zitsarethecure]

I guess AI's talking to AI's about gibberish is the future of all energy use.

[pfdietz]

Is anyone deliberately generating nonsense, or worse malignant falsehoods, to pollute the crawlers?

[Twirrim → pfdietz]

Yup, using iocaine https://lib.rs/crates/iocaine. AI crawlers are getting text generated by a markov chain built from Moby Dick.

Is it effective? Eh, probably not. Fun though.

[cozzyd → Twirrim]

Well now that Ross ulbricht has been pardoned I'm not sure iocaine is all that useful

[theragra → pfdietz]

Lawless or lawful? I don't understand why people hate crawlers that much. I understand arguments about ones that violate robots.txt, but not correct ones.