It’s already hard enough for self-hosters and small online communities to deal with spam from fleshbags, now we’re being swarmed by clankers. I have a little Mediawiki to document my deranged maladaptive daydreams worldbuilding and conlanging projects, and the only traffic besides me is likely AI crawlers.
I hate this so much. It’s not enough that huge centralized platforms have the network effect on their side, they have to drown our quiet little corners of the web under a whelming flood of soulless automata.
I was up 10 to 20 percent month over month, and suddenly up 1000% it has spiked hard and they all are data harvesters.
I know I am going to start blocking them, which is too bad, I put valuable technical information up, with no advertising, because I want to share it. And I don’t even really mind indexers or even AI learning about it. But I cannot sustain this kind of bullshit traffic, so I will end up taking a heavy hand and blocking everything, and then no one will find it.
Anubis is supposed to filter out and block all those bots from accessing your webpage.
Iocaine, nepenthes, and/or madore’s book of infinity are intended to redirect them into a maze of randomly generated bullshit, which still consumes resources but is intended to poison the bots’ training data.
It’s already hard enough for self-hosters and small online communities to deal with spam from fleshbags, now we’re being swarmed by clankers. I have a little Mediawiki to document my
deranged maladaptive daydreamsworldbuilding and conlanging projects, and the only traffic besides me is likely AI crawlers.I hate this so much. It’s not enough that huge centralized platforms have the network effect on their side, they have to drown our quiet little corners of the web under a whelming flood of soulless automata.
I was up 10 to 20 percent month over month, and suddenly up 1000% it has spiked hard and they all are data harvesters.
I know I am going to start blocking them, which is too bad, I put valuable technical information up, with no advertising, because I want to share it. And I don’t even really mind indexers or even AI learning about it. But I cannot sustain this kind of bullshit traffic, so I will end up taking a heavy hand and blocking everything, and then no one will find it.
Anubis is supposed to filter out and block all those bots from accessing your webpage.
Iocaine, nepenthes, and/or madore’s book of infinity are intended to redirect them into a maze of randomly generated bullshit, which still consumes resources but is intended to poison the bots’ training data.
So pick your poison
We’ve officially reached a place where cyberspace is beginning to look like communing with the arcane. Lol
And the AI are demon souls, specifically aspects of gluttony