[$] Poisoning scraperbots with iocaine

Web sites are being increasingly beset by AI scraperbots - a problem that we havewritten about before, and which has slowlyramped up to an occasional de-facto DDoS attack. This has not goneuncontested, however: web site operators from around the world have been working oninventive countermeasures. These solutions target the problem posed by scraperbots in different ways;iocaine, a MIT-licensed nonsense generator, is designedto make scraped text less useful by poisoning it with fake data. The hope is tomake running scraperbots not economically viable, and thereby address theproblem at its root instead of playing an eternal game of Whac-A-Mole.