Full title: I hid a link on my website that only bots can see and told them not to follow it. They broke the rules and in 4 days they went 124,414 levels deep into an endless maze. One bot opened 782,580 doors. I thought this was super interesting, this is how the internet is these days. Thought I’d share.

Is this why porn is so good now?

Designing impossible mazes for AI to get lost in as a matter of civil defense? What a fucking world we live in…

You know, I wonder if the AI agents are willing to open random zip files they find on websites, and I'm further curious if they're smart enough to avoid a zip bomb.

Man do I hate the age we live in now, where people are actively having to declare war on scrapers like this because AI bros have literally zero respect towards the rest of the internet.

I just hope all that endless maze scraping cost some asshat a decent chunk of money.

Right! This isn't "AI going rogue", it's software agents made and employed by perfectly human psychopaths.

Throw in a few of them torture chambers and make it a proper dungeon >:)

Extremely good content! Very interesting. Would love to see more!

Can follow JWZ for practical experience on this kind of thing - apparently it is getting so bad that even opening a connection to deliver the zip bombs is getting infeasible now.

It's a bot reposting content from reddit.

Fuck really? :'(

Can’t see the other comment replies to you for some reason, but the irony is that the OP you’re replying to is a bot that scrapes Reddit for content with a vibe coded extension.

Here’s the original post in /r/interestingasfuck that was removed by mods for some reason.

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1wypha0/removed_by_moderator/

No, you didn’t.

Yeah I have OP listed as "repost bot" so if I see something cool I can go check somewhere else for the info.

Is ironic the word for OP being a repost bot? Or is it just expected at this point?

We already got one and people are crying their eyes out because poor bots. https://www.404media.co/someone-torturing-llms-in-a-robot-prison-has-triggered-the-dumbest-debate-in-ai-yet/

It's ironic that you advertise yourself as having "time to lose" but you don't have "time to replace 1st person pronouns with more accurate 3rd person ones."

can you turn this into a WP plug-in?

please?

edit: I see now that this is a repost bot agcount. But hey, maybe someone else can design a plugin.

How do you know? Just curious.

How do you know?

Post history and seeing the same username every day. Plus they rarely every respond to questions and comments when they post and what they respond with is generic.

Also interested in how you know. Just commenting to get notificated (:

Maybe it's the bot of the guy who thought the only way to save the threadiverse is by having bots repost almost everything from Reddit.

I guess the bot preserved the post, then?

Still, would be better if the original was properly credited...

I don't know what's real anymore!!

FYI https://piefed.social recently added a filter for them

https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta@piefed.social/p/2457619/reposter-feature

You can find the original post on Reddit, somebody has already linked the original post down the thread. This is typical of this user and a few others like sanitation who have become notorious for using Reddit repost bots many times with errors in the repost like not having all of the image or not having any of the post body.

It’s very annoying.

Yeah I guess that’s the upside. Honestly I would have no problem with what he’s doing if he changed a couple things.

If his accounts (he’s got a bunch) were clearly marked as bots, but I’m sure he doesn’t want to because then you’ll see how much bot generated content he moves over. But like there’s already RSS feed type bots that repost content from Reddit and even include a link back to the original. Not that I’d want to push people over there, but you’re not getting actual comment engagement on a bot post.

If he just changed the titles so he’s not constantly posting “I did x” content when no he didn’t. “I did x” posts like this or HistoryMeme type posts spark conversation that will end up being one sided because you’ll never get a reply from the bot.

Posted a little fucking less. Look on the front page and see how many posts are coming from Sanitation, Time2Loose, Mustachious_Grumpus, Grumpus_Maximus, OldManAlex, and others he has. All Reddit repost bot accounts. It’s just inorganic. Same reason people hate that shit on Reddit.

Edit: apparently he’s already doing that as well under the username liquorice which IS marked as a bot using the same vibe coded extension. Only then he goes and makes 8+ other account not marked as bots to cover up how much bot posted shit is being pulled over from Reddit.

Look at their profile. 460 posts, 45 comments, in just 1 month. If they aren't automating their posts they need to go touch grass.

An overwhelming number of their posts have titles like "I made this thing", but are clearly just popular posts ripped straight from Reddit.

I also have them tagged as a repost bot. I'm not blocking them, but don't bother trying to engage like the content is somehow organic or original.

Apparently some bot programmers are assholes who ignore rel="nofollow".

In other words, you don't really know - not that there's anything wrong with that. Opinions and "it's obvious" are the social media standard for "fact".

I prefer to think of it as being observant and investigating but to each their own. OP has been called out on almost every post and never defended themselves. Could be a human who doesn't check the replies but either way, the behavior is the same.

Where are you getting your porn from, 'cause between ID-checking roadblocks and the fact that no can seem to make a decent search engine anymore, I've never had a more difficult time trying to find good porn. Please, share with me your secrets (and no, I am never going to give my ID to a porn site!)

Look up "tarpit" plug ins, most of this is ready to use. I see quite a few when I search, but I'm not familiar with the wordpress world, so can't really recommend one or the other.

Yandex.

Isn't Yandex a Russian search engine? I meant a porntube site. That way I can create an account and have a recommendation algorithm.

You need an account to jerk off?

Have you ever tried to watch porn without an account before? It's like watching YouTube without one. It's the Wild West, and every video sucks. That's the problem I'm having. Nobody makes a good porn site with a good search function anymore.

I'm literally doing as we speak.

Well you're not the person who can help me, then. Clearly your needs are less specific than mine.

That's fine, I need to take a break from porn anyway.

That user has a history of reposting reddit content and the format and pattern of posts are obviously not human. All of its posts are originally from reddit. A simple search of its posts will show you they are copied word for word from an older reddit post. What more evidence do you need?

What's the purpose of doing this as a bot but not declaring the account as a bot account? On other sites, they do it for karma farming, but that doesn't really apply here, right?

Nah those people complaining are reddit agents. Trying to ruin lemmy

lol not even a little. I'm trying to grow my lemmy communities. I have no problem with it being a bot, that's why I haven't blocked it. My issue is that it's not declared as a bot. Several times I've found myself asking further questions to just realize, it's that same guy who posted a "my super cool thing" five minutes ago and I won't get a response to my question. There's no way he has a jurrasic park themed turtle sanctuary in addition to the other 50 sweet things in his house/yard/town/

Yeah, that's my issue. Like some stuff is cool, I want to ask follow up questions. But OP didn't make or create any of the things they're posting so they'll never know the answer. Which is fine, if you link to the original source. I understand that sometimes you can't link the original source but like, be upfront. I repost things from reddit in !bestofinternetupdates@lemmy.world. But I do it by hand and I link back to the original locations in case people want more information or to see the original source.

Yeah but I thought maybe we could add it from the repo somehow so if the bot got extra lost going through doors it wasn't supposed to look behind, that it got in trouble and got a spanking

There's a few open source programs out there for doing precisely this. Iocaine, Nepenthes, and Book of Infinity are the three I know of. There may be more

robots.txt only keeps the honest robots out

Probably just another layer of analytics for engagement bait in other spaces. They can also copy top comments and train LLMs and whatever else every bad actor does to every internet comment site now. They are like a slime mold and grow toward any source of nutrition except it's an n-dimensional maze and the nutrition is influencing public opinion and scamming people.

So what you're implying is this should be implemented in every website in both follow/not follow just to waste their money?

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