iocaine
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> The deadliest poison known to AI.

This is a tarpit, modeled after [Nepenthes](https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/), intended to catch unwelcome web crawlers, but with a slightly different, more aggressive intended usage scenario. The core idea is to configure a reverse proxy to serve content generated by `iocaine` to AI crawlers, but normal content to every other visitor. This differs from Nepenthes, where the idea is to link to it, and trap crawlers that way. Not with `iocaine`, where the trap is laid by the reverse proxy.

`iocaine` does not try to slow crawlers. It does not try to waste their time that way - that is left up to the reverse proxy. `iocaine` is *purely* about generating garbage.

For more information about what this is, how it works, and how to deploy it, have a look at the [dedicated website][docs:url].

Lets make AI poisoning the norm. If we all do it, they won't have anything to crawl.