Why poison text?
Why poison text?
Posted Feb 16, 2026 18:09 UTC (Mon) by mb (subscriber, #50428)In reply to: Why poison text? by rgmoore
Parent article: Poisoning scraperbots with iocaine
> The big problem is that it would be hard to insert subtle errors automatically
This is the *perfect* use case for AI.
Subtle errors happen to me all the time when using AI to generate code.
If there's one thing LLM AI models are really really good it, then it's introducing subtle errors.
> A more practical approach would be to keep around all your old, known buggy code and feed that to the bots instead of the fixed versions
That's what everybody does. It's called a git repository.
AI crawlers go down *deep* into the history of git repositories.