I use iocaine[0] to generate a tarpit. Yesterday it served ~278k "pages" consisting of ~500MB of gibberish (and that's despite banning most AI scrapers in robots.txt.)

[0] https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org

One of the most popular ones is Anubis. It uses a proof of work and can even do poisoning: https://anubis.techaro.lol/

They even mention iocaine. I know, inconceivable!: https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/

There's also tons of HN posts on the topic with varying solutions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45935729

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45711094

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44142761

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44378127

https://forge.hackers.town/hackers.town/nepenthes

> Citation needed

this reply kinda sucks :)

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