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		a-biad 21 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Faking a JPEG I am bit confused about the context. What is exactly the point of exposing fake data to webcrawlers?

whitten 21 days ago | [–]

penalizing the web spider for scraping their site

gosub100 21 days 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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