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In short, it’s frustrating! That’s where Nepenthes comes into play, a tool created by Aaron B. and named in homage to those fascinating carnivorous plants that digest their prey in their ...

In January, we reported on "Nepenthes," software that similarly lures AI crawlers into mazes of fake content. Both approaches share the core concept of wasting crawler resources rather than simply ...

Ars Technica spoke to the anonymous designer of Nepenthes, a piece of software that he fully admits is aggressive and malicious. The tool, named after a carnivorous pitcher plant, sends AI ...

Building on an anti-spam cybersecurity tactic known as tarpitting, he created Nepenthes, malicious software named after a carnivorous plant that will "eat just about anything that finds its way ...

Nepenthes is a worm that creates infinite maze-like traps to target crawlers, who scrape data to train large language models (LLMs). The author warns that Nepenthes 'actually eats everything that ...

Web crawlers for AI models often do not stop at copyright protection either – The Nepenthes tool sets a trap for them. Web crawlers play a central role in the race for the best AI model ...

Naturally this makes a lot of people very angry, but what can you do about it? The answer by [Aaron B] is Nepenthes, described on the project page as a ‘tar pit for catching web crawlers’.

Named after the Orangutan whose scientific term is Pongo, this plant - Nepenthes pongoides, found in the ultramafic mountains in central Sabah, has a striking resemblance to the great ape’s long ...

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