The Digital Rebellion: Tarpits vs. AI Crawlers
Picture this: a digital jungle where predatory AI crawlers roam, gobbling up website data to feed ever-hungry machine learning models. Last summer, Anthropic’s ClaudeBot became the poster child of this invasion, accused of hammering sites like iFixit with over a million hits in a single day, heedless of the internet’s gentleman’s agreement—robots.txt.
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