Hacker News with Generative AI: Bots

Cloudflare builds AI to lead AI scraper bots into horrible maze of junk content (theregister.com)
Cloudflare has created a bot-busting AI to make life hell for AI crawlers.
Anubis: Proof-of-work proxy to prevent AI crawlers (techaro.lol)
Making sure you're not a bot!
Cloudflare: Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth (cloudflare.com)
Today, we’re excited to announce AI Labyrinth, a new mitigation approach that uses AI-generated content to slow down, confuse, and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and other bots that don’t respect “no crawl” directives. When you opt in, Cloudflare will automatically deploy an AI-generated set of linked pages when we detect inappropriate bot activity, without the need for customers to create any custom rules.
Elon Musk promotes negative Tesla survey turned positive by bots (electrek.co)
Elon Musk has shared a survey that was clearly negative about Tesla last week, but it was made to look positive for Tesla after bots rigged the results.
Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth (cloudflare.com)
Today, we’re excited to announce AI Labyrinth, a new mitigation approach that uses AI-generated content to slow down, confuse, and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and other bots that don’t respect “no crawl” directives.
The Botfly Test: Characterizing parasitic automated behavior in online communit (hannahilea.com)
I recently encountered non-transparent automated behavior in a tech-community forum, and it really, really annoyed me. After confirming that my spidey senses were correct, and that this user was actively, regularly, and non-transparently performing and benefiting from automated interactions in the forum, I spent some time trying to figure out why exactly I was so annoyed by it.
An internet where bots outnumber humans (kadoa.com)
Bots are now estimated to make up nearly half of all internet traffic worldwide.
California bill would require bots to disclose that they are bots (veeto.app)
Assembly Member Wilson's bot disclosure legislation redefines California's approach to automated online communications by requiring all bots to identify themselves during interactions with state residents, regardless of their purpose.
Ask HN: Has everyone just given up on blocking bots? (ycombinator.com)
Bots account for just a ridiculous amount of web traffic, tying up resources and bandwidth, and the go to response to this is...basically nothing.
Realtime bot block list on Bluesky (morphic.pro)
A Bluesky bot that automates a block list of accounts that spam follow. 🚫 Blocking 11056 accounts
Has anyone else noticed Reddit being taken over by shills/bot/trolls (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: Does Hacker News consist mostly of real people? (ycombinator.com)
I'm curious about how the community operates, how much of the engagement is genuine, and whether there are any bots or automation in discussions. I'd love to hear insights from those who've been part of this community for a while!
Is it me or is Reddit mostly bots now? (ycombinator.com)
A lot of the comments I am seeing under posts seem just a bit off.
Show HN: Email Inbox for Bots (botmailroom.com)
An Email Inbox for Bots.
Show HN: XHR anti bot bypass (xhr.dev) (xhr.dev)
Let your bot browse like a human
ActivityBot: A simple ActivityPub bot server in PHP (gitlab.com)
A single PHP file which acts as a basic ActivityPub bot server.
More than 30% of PRs in public GitHub repos are from bots (twitter.com)
Ask HN: Why are social media spam bots still a thing? (ycombinator.com)
Specifically Instagram. After many years, I still get regular messages from spam bots, usually pretending to be women that are romantically interested. It seems trivial to ban (or even prevent) those accounts, from a technical perspective. Reporting them also doesn't seem to do much. Why is this still a thing? This should have been a solved problem years ago no? Are there, besides technical reasons, other reasons to keep spam bots alive on their platforms?
Reddit Bot CLI: tool to monitor subreddits for keywords and post comment (github.com/VashonG)
Reddit Bot CLI is a command-line tool that automatically monitors specific subreddits for keywords and posts comments when those keywords are found.
Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots (ycombinator.com)
Last year, just for fun, I created a single index.php website calculating HEX colors to RGB. It takes 3 and 6 digit notation (ie. #c00 and #cc0000) and converts it to RGB value. No database, just single .php file, converting values on the fly.
Bots, so many bots (wakatime.com)
ProductHunt has over 1 million user signups. More than 60% of those are bots.
The internet is 90% Fake (ycombinator.com)
The internet is not real and 90% of its traffic is likely bots.
Developing a Go bot embedding Ichiban Prolog (rogersm.net)
Ichiban Prolog is a #golang implementation of an ISO compatible Prolog. To learn how to embed it, I decided to add Prolog support to Hellabot, a simple irc bot.
The Russian Bot Army That Conquered Online Poker (bloomberg.com)
Open Source Twitter Bot (github.com/yousef-rafat)
Note: This repository is made for education purposes only
Baiting the bot (conspirator0.substack.com)
LLM chatbots can be engaged in endless "conversations" by considerably simpler text generation bots. This has some interesting implications.
Has anyone noticed how overrun by bots Reddit has become? (ycombinator.com)
HellPot – A portal to endless suffering meant to punish unruly HTTP bots (github.com/yunginnanet)
Show HN: Perplexity (llama3 70B) Inline Bot on Telegram (telegrambots.ai)
Block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single click (cloudflare.com)