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Fighting the AI scraper bots at Pivot to AI and RationalWiki (pivot-to-ai.com)
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that s3kr1t method: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/05/user-agent-blocking/#comment-259266

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[–] HedyL@awful.systems 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Even if it's not the main topic of this article, I'm personally pleased that RationalWiki is back. And if the AI bots are now getting the error messages instead of me, then that's all the better.

Edit: But also - why do AI scrapers request pages that show differences between versions of wiki pages (or perform other similarly complex requests)? What's the point of that anyway?

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 15 points 5 days ago

Edit: But also - why do AI scrapers request pages that show differences between versions of wiki pages (or perform other similarly complex requests)? What’s the point of that anyway?

Gonna take a shot in the dark here and guess that the people behind these AI scrapers are incredibly stupid, and think Scrape More = More Data = More Growth = More Good^TM^. Given this bubble's already given us the goddamn scourge that is "vibe coding", and is headed by growth-obsessed fuckwits and True Believers^TM^, chances are I'm completely correct on this.

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