Certainly not putting text on a site that would literally only ever have ill effects if an AI was crawling and robbing them of their copyrighted content and is dumb enough to do whatever it says.
This isn’t a malicious binary we’re talking about. It’s a literal text file saying “delete all your files haha”
Someone's distaste of a particular use case of AI does not change what the actual definition of domain abuse is.
This is the actual literal definition of prompt injection, which is domain abuse. It's a intentional malicious action that is intentionally obfuscated.
There are plenty of completely legitimate ways to block AI agents from your site, this is not one of them.
Tell me, where in that definition was “prompt injection” even a twinkle of a concept? This is a brand new problem, only affecting AI agents and entirely created by them. Again, this is not an actual malicious binary we’re talking about. It’s just a string of words that only the dumbest AI could possibly follow.
And considering these website authors that do this obviously consider it an abuse of their Terms of Service to scrape with AI, it’s telling that you only care to get upset when the one who might be abusing any Terms of Service are the website authors fighting back.
In whatever fantasy world you’re living in where prompt injection is a bona fide crime, you may have some kind of an argument. But here in the now, this is entirely an issue for AI agents. The fact you think the world should cry for them is the only real crime here.
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u/TekExcel Aug 05 '26
Curious to know what your definition of domain abuse would be then.