We keep an eye out for the most interesting stories about Labby subjects: digital media, startups, the web, journalism, strategy, and more. Here’s some of what we’ve seen lately.
“A pseudonymous coder has created and released an open source ‘tar pit’ to indefinitely trap AI training web crawlers in an infinitely, randomly-generating series of pages to waste their time and computing power. The program, called Nepenthes after the genus of carnivorous pitcher plants which trap and consume their prey, can be deployed by webpage owners to protect their own content from being scraped or can be deployed ‘offensively’ as a honeypot trap to waste AI companies’ resources.” —N
Tags:
AI,
copyright,
crawlers,
generative AI,
internet scraping,
Nepenthes,
training data
