Comment by mhuffman
1 day ago
I don't understand the reasoning behind the "feed them a bunch of trash" option when it seems that if you identify them (for example by ignoring a robots.txt file) you can just keep them hung up on network connections or similar without paying for infinite garbage for crawlers to injest.
The "poisoning the data supply" angle seems to be a common motive, similar to tools like nightshade[1] (for actual images and not just garbage data).
[1] https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html
I get that, but paying to do it?