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Re: How to speed up my (WordPress) website?
Digital Media
Digital Marketing
3 Weeks Ago
by Dani
Use Cloudflare (
free
plan is available) and plugins such as WP Rocket or WP Engine.
Re: What Happened When We Applied Psychology-Backed Tweaks to a Funnel?
Digital Media
Digital Marketing
1 Week Ago
by graceweb
It’s amazing how just a few strategic changes can turn a struggling funnel into a success story. The emphasis on trust signals and emotional storytelling really resonates—those elements create a connection that can be the deciding factor for prospects. Thanks for highlighting those key takeaways! It’s a good reminder that sometimes it’s not …
ArkTS - McCharts
Programming
Software Development
1 Month Ago
by 杨_659
… undergoes rigorous testing of all properties before release. However, *bug-
free
code is a myth*, so prompt feedback is appreciated! --- ### **Open…, I’m open to feedback and eager to learn. Feel
free
to reach out via GitHub’s group QR code or…
Re: What are the AI writing tools?
Hardware and Software
Networking
2 Months Ago
by Ja sa bong
I've verb using ChatGPT, the
free
version of course and it's very good for content creation task as well as conducting research. What are the things you need AI to work with?
Re: What are the AI writing tools?
Hardware and Software
Networking
2 Months Ago
by kearawill1122
… sounds interesting. It’s good to know there’s a
free
trial or limited access, so people can explore it before…
Re: What are the AI writing tools?
Hardware and Software
Networking
2 Months Ago
by oleonda
Chat gpt is best and
free
Hi everyone, I'm caamrita329
Community Center
Say Hello!
1 Month Ago
by caamrita329
… integration, and process automation, and engaging in meaningful discussions. Feel
free
to connect—let’s collaborate and innovate together! 💡💬
Re: Show me AI Hidden Features in Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra ?
Hardware and Software
Hardware
Mobile and Wearables
2 Months Ago
by Salem
> I'd rather have a phone that can make calls, texts and take UNALTERED BY AI photos. How long before AI eff's up some key witness photo, resulting in the guilty going
free
or the innocent jailed?
Re: Hi everyone, I'm varunkumarriat
Community Center
Say Hello!
2 Months Ago
by Dani
Hi and welcome!! I, as well, have a lot of web design and development experience. I wrote DaniWeb, after all ;) I'd love to help with any questions you may have. Feel
free
to post, and hope to see you come back. I know it's been a few weeks since your post.
Re: Hi everyone, I'm Jason_70
Community Center
Say Hello!
2 Months Ago
by Reverend Jim
>I’m all about sci-fi/fantasy that makes you think Definitely give [The Man From Earth](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683/) a go. You can watch it for
free
on youtube. I'm always up for discussions on movies, good or bad.
Re: Contact form does not working
Programming
Web Development
2 Months Ago
by gediminas.bukauskas.7
… or will be automatically will be placed into the trash.
Free
mailing is available on local network only.
Re: Which Python project should I use?
Programming
Software Development
2 Months Ago
by Reverend Jim
Using wxPython for your GUI elements will make it more portable to other platforms. wxPython also renders the elements in the target platform's native style. Usimg wxGlade (also
free
) to design the layout will make things much easier than doing it all by hand.
Re: I'm Tired! How to Increase Social Media Followers
Digital Media
Digital Marketing
1 Month Ago
by Dani
… targeting? What do you envision that audience doing with their
free
time? Are they students who are going to be in…
Re: Selling the house that I grew up
Community Center
Geeks' Lounge
1 Month Ago
by Reverend Jim
… haven't tasted real food until you've had pesticide
free
yellow & green beans, peas, beets, and corn on the…
Re: What Happened When We Applied Psychology-Backed Tweaks to a Funnel?
Digital Media
Digital Marketing
1 Month Ago
by asadkhan12
Your post perfectly highlights the power of behavioral psychology in funnel optimization! The results speak for themselves—small yet strategic psychological tweaks can make a massive impact on conversions. Trust signals, emotional storytelling, and cognitive ease are often overlooked but make all the difference. The way you broke down each …
Re: ‘Advanced AI should be treated similar to Weapons of Mass Destruction’
Community Center
2 Months Ago
by rproffitt
UPDATE: Feb 4, 2025 — Google on Tuesday updated its ethical guidelines around artificial intelligence, removing commitments not to apply the technology to weapons or surveillance.
Re: How would we poison AI web crawls?
Hardware and Software
Information Security
2 Months Ago
by Pebble94464
Don't waste your time, rproffitt. Spamming the web is unlikely to achieve your goals... Firstly, everything you post online is but a wee drop in the ocean. You'd need to do an illegal amount of spamming in order to sway an opinion. Secondly, AI bots crawling the web can be instructed to simply ignore pages that contain censored keywords. AI …
Re: How would we poison AI web crawls?
Hardware and Software
Information Security
2 Months Ago
by rproffitt
I asked around and it appears we can affect change. The immigrant reporting hotline was flooded with reports about Elon Musk so that line shut down. As to AI crawlers the work to poison the AIs is well underway. Examples follow. > Here is a curated list of strategies, offensive methods, and tactics for (algorithmic) sabotage, disruption, …
Re: How would we poison AI web crawls?
Hardware and Software
Information Security
2 Months Ago
by Dani
If you're not a part of the solution, you're a part of the precipitate. I think this sounds terrible. The global population is, more and more, relying on AI to serve up accurate answers. There's already the gigantic problem of hallucinations as well as AI consistently spewing out false information that sounds entirely believable, and therefore …
Re: How would we poison AI web crawls?
Hardware and Software
Information Security
2 Months Ago
by Reverend Jim
As an example, the person who developed Iocaine found that 94% of the traffic to his site was caused by bots. When you price and design a site for an expected human load, and then you get overwhelmed by bots, you can throw more money at it or you can take action against the bots. In my meagre understanding of all things web related, robots.txt is …
Re: How would we poison AI web crawls?
Hardware and Software
Information Security
2 Months Ago
by Dani
> When you price and design a site for an expected human load, and then you get overwhelmed by bots, you can throw more money at it or you can take action against the bots. It's true that the majority of websites on the Internet today spend more bandwidth on bots than they do on human visitors. However, there are both bad bots and good bots, …
Re: How would we poison AI web crawls?
Hardware and Software
Information Security
2 Months Ago
by rproffitt
The OpenAI bot appears to be a bad bot. Discussed many times so here's just one: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1i154h7/openai_not_respecting_robotstxt_and_being_sneaky/ Fixes appear to be: 1. Block IP ranges from bots. 2. Replace words and poison the bots.
Re: How would we poison AI web crawls?
Hardware and Software
Information Security
2 Months Ago
by Reverend Jim
Thanks for the extra info although I disagree with the spewing comment. Nepenthes and Iocaine do not spew garbage across the web. They feed garbage to bots that access the protected sites. AI that returns bogus results on the ppther hand ARE spewing garbage across the web. BTW Nepenthes makes it clear that implementation will result in being …
Re: How would we poison AI web crawls?
Hardware and Software
Information Security
2 Months Ago
by Dani
> The OpenAI bot appears to be a bad bot. This is not my experience. OpenAI respects my robots.txt file perfectly. I do want to add, though, that robots.txt files are very finicky, and I have seen many, many times people blaming the bots when the problem lies with a syntax or logic error in their robots.txt. > Nepenthes and Iocaine do…
Re: How would we poison AI web crawls?
Hardware and Software
Information Security
2 Months Ago
by Dani
> The OpenAI bot appears to be a bad bot. Specifically, I would bet quite a large sum of money that the people who are complaining they can't get OpenAI to respect their robots.txt file either have a syntax error in their file, and/or aren't naming the correct user agents. I've seen people mistakingly try to reference a user agent called &…
Re: How would we poison AI web crawls?
Hardware and Software
Information Security
2 Months Ago
by Dani
> The creator of Nepenthes says that it is ineffective against OpenAI which I take to mean that OpenAI is ignoring robots.txt. As mentioned, Nepenthes uses the spoofing technique. Spoofing does not rely whatsoever on bots following robots.txt.
Re: How would we poison AI web crawls?
Hardware and Software
Information Security
2 Months Ago
by Salem
> But it's also in everyone's interest for AI to be trained on reliable information, if we want AI to be useful to us Yeah, that ship slipped it's mooring when facebook appeared, drifted out to sea on the twitter tide, and promptly sank when muck took it over. Domain specific AI's trained on the likes of https://arxiv.org/ might be worth …
Re: How would we poison AI web crawls?
Hardware and Software
Information Security
2 Months Ago
by Reverend Jim
>OpenAI can detect the content thrown at it is nonsensical So OpenAI doesn't crawl Facebook and Twitter? How about Fox News and related sites? And if it ignores Fox, etc, are we thern going to get Trump screaming about radical liberal bias? How does AI distinguish between conspiracy theory and reality?
Re: How would we poison AI web crawls?
Hardware and Software
Information Security
2 Months Ago
by Reverend Jim
Remember what happened with Microsoft's chatbot, TAY? It was shut down after only 16 hours when trolls trained it to spout racist slurs and profanity. OpenAI and similar systems are trained on the cesspool that is the entire internet. Sturgeon's Law says 90% of everything is crap. That may well apply to the internet. I'm surprised it hasn't …
Re: How would we poison AI web crawls?
Hardware and Software
Information Security
2 Months Ago
by Dani
> Many places ban or remove AI generated content. We are one of them! :)
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