Shoganza

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32f / video james 🎮 / art 🎨 Artist for DATaW CK3 Mod Talk Dragon Age 🐉 FFXIV ☄️ Mass Effect 👽 Baldur’s Gate 🦑 Cyberpunk 2077 🎸 etc. to me

Basically traps AI crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.

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Might be my conspiracy brain but it kind of feels like the Sims 1 and 2 drop is an EA smokescreen to try to drown out BioWare layoff criticisms on socials.

Adamant Fortress Only spirits roam its halls now, alongside the memories of those who gave their lives to protect us all from darkness. —From the journal of Veldin, Grey Warden of Orlais, 8:58 Blessed (Model by Char)

A miniature of Adamant Fortress, as seen in Dragon Age Inquisition. This is a custom asset for the fortress in Thedas At War

Every couple of months, I’m reminded that grass didn’t exist until the Cretaceous period. For millions of years it was *literally* impossible to touch grass.

In 2010, anti-copyright activist Aaron Swartz hanged himself after being prosecuted to the full extent of the law for making copyrighted academic publications freely available. Today, academic publishers are insisting those copyrights be lifted to feed the corporate AI slop machine.

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‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says

Brave sigma males really showing us by *checks notes* gaslighting themselves into not finding conventionally attractive women attractive in video games. Consider us owned.