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January 23, 2025 Link Blog

Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots

I would love to toss a little something on this blog to trap AI training bots but allow Google to index it.

“Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself - the crawler downloads those new links. Nepenthes happily just returns more and more lists of links pointing back to itself.”

By way of 404 Media:

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