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Comment by a-biad

1 day ago

I am bit confused about the context. What is exactly the point of exposing fake data to webcrawlers?

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whitten  20 hours ago

penalizing the web spider for scraping their site

gosub100  19 hours ago

They crawl for data, usually to train a model. Poisoning the models training data makes it less useful and therefore less valuable

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