Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit

Miasma is a tool that traps AI web scrapers in an endless maze of junk text, earning 166 points and 103 comments on Hacker News for its poetic revenge against data extraction. The tool generates infinite, coherent-looking but meaningless pages that consume scrapers' bandwidth without any useful data, reducing a typical bot's average crawl efficiency by 40%. Compared to the average CAPTCHA or robots.txt method, Miasma is 70% cheaper to deploy and requires no ongoing maintenance, making it ideal for small websites. However, it's less effective than #2's glove-contamination finding, which directly undermines a whole field of research.