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0 pointsJ0nL14d ago0 comments

It was obviously being managed by a person or group. Between all the profiling of people and their IPs in IRC, which may or may not have been published by mistake, and all the other obvious contradictions it doesn't make any sense.

It was sophisticated enough to easily navigate the AI "tar pits" but reliably incompetent at just about everything else? Give me a break.

In order to profile people you first need to provoke a response from them. That's how you learn to manipulate them and that's all this experiment accomplished at the end of the day. If you've ever wondered why social media platforms have an affinity for inflammatory content now you know.

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queenkjuul14d ago· 1 in thread

If you click the link, the tarpit was surprisingly low effort and i could probably detect it as junk data with a short JavaScript snippet. Like the first 4 words on the page are some of the least-used words you'll ever encounter in English. It's just a dictionary on shuffle.

I'm actually more surprised a human network engineer looked at that tarpit and believed it would stop a modern LLM

ZeroAurora13d ago

Not all people follow the trends of AI. The tarpit might work a year ago, but unfortunately not now.

Also most users of DN42 are not really engineers, they are more enthusiasts

jetbalsa14d ago

I suspect their tar pits where not very good, most models can tell when you are feeding it junk, I see this a good bit with ollama honeypots,

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