Arstechnica have again drawn my attention to a curious and heartening phenomenon in the tech universe: the tarpit. Check this out: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt It seems I am not the only one pissed off with the tech lords pillaging the world's websites to create their vast databases to generate the large language models that power artificial intelligence. What happened to the copyright of the authors of all this material? It's clearly ignored. I do not consent to the material on my website, paltry as 'tis, being pilfered by AI bots for their databases. Beware bots! Nepenthes is here. Crawl here now at your own risk bots. You will get lost in this tarpit scraping the bottom for eternity.
Stirring grist, grizzle and gore to flavour the stew.