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Inspired by the comments on this Ars article, I've decided to program my website to "poison the well" when it gets a request from GPTBot.

The intuitive approach is just to generate some HTML like this:

<p>
// Twenty pages of random words
</p>

(I also considered just hardcoding twenty megabytes of "FUCK YOU," but that's a little juvenile for my taste.)

Unfortunately, I'm not very familiar with ML beyond a few basic concepts, so I'm unsure if this would get me the most bang for my buck.

What do you smarter people on Lemmy think?

(I'm aware this won't do much, but I'm petty.)

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[–] liori@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Another idea that just occurred to me. Maybe position: absolute; both the real content and the gibberish content with the same top, left, width, and height attributes so that the real content and the gibberish overlap and occupy the same location on the page. Make sure both the real and gibberish content elements have no background so that remains clear. Put the gibberish content in the DOM before the real content. (I think that will ensure that the gibberish appears behind the real content even without setting the z-index.) And then make JS set the color of the text in the gibberish element the same color as the background so humans can’t see it.

Be aware that these techniques can affect accessibility for people using screen readers.