Iocaine: The deadliest poison known to AI
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·July 11, 2025dwattttt
Their anti-bot detection is pretty aggressive. The server insists I'm a teapot, and I haven't checked today, but I'm pretty sure I'm at least humanoid shaped.
davely
Excuse me! If that truly is the case, then why are you sending out 418 status codes?
TheRealPomax
That's exactly what an etc. etc.
esseph
Well if it talks like a teapot, and walks like a teapot... you may be in a Disney movie.
knodi123
Should have given tiny doses of HN to the server every day, increasing the dose over time, until it built an immunity to hordes of traffic.
cobychapple
Viewing this incorrectly flags my primary browser into the infinite tarpit but not a different browser. Perhaps a little too aggressive or not discerning enough?
HeavyStorm
HN, the deadliest poison know to sites
wpollock
Does the name come from The Princess Bride?
sgtppr
I wonder what would happen if you served LLM-generated garbage to the LLMs if that’d be even better. Just massive amounts of fake content, plausible terrible code, incorrect legal cases, new math, horrible recipes, novels by famous authors that were never written.
GaggiX
Is this website supposed to load? Is HN the deadliest poison of this website?
ChrisArchitect
Related thread (and inspiration?):
Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers
> Lets make AI poisoning the norm. If we all do it, they won't have anything to crawl.
The AI companies are just going to filter out garbage better (hint: they already do), and the crawlers are going to get better at pretending to be human. The only change we'll notice is that the end user's experience has gotten worse.