Based on what I've read from many sysadmins, returning "poisoned" data does approximately nothing to disrupt the DDoS bots. Until the Infinite Money Spigot gets shut off, few of the folks who are ultimately shoveling that data into their LLM-production systems are going to give it a detailed inspection.
And from what I've heard, getting "clever" causes the bots to get even more aggressive. Either you feed them junk and pay the money for the massive amounts of wasted CPU and bandwidth, [0] or cut off your site from a great many -but not all!- bots and many humans by blocking traffic from fairly huge chunks of the Internet.
[0] ...and -depending on how little CPU and bandwidth you can pay for- maybe end up with a site that's largely useless for humans...
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Based on what I've read from many sysadmins, returning "poisoned" data does approximately nothing to disrupt the DDoS bots. Until the Infinite Money Spigot gets shut off, few of the folks who are ultimately shoveling that data into their LLM-production systems are going to give it a detailed inspection.
And from what I've heard, getting "clever" causes the bots to get even more aggressive. Either you feed them junk and pay the money for the massive amounts of wasted CPU and bandwidth, [0] or cut off your site from a great many -but not all!- bots and many humans by blocking traffic from fairly huge chunks of the Internet.
[0] ...and -depending on how little CPU and bandwidth you can pay for- maybe end up with a site that's largely useless for humans...