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To those running AI agents: Anubis is adding a honeypot for AI agents. It requests for PII, then bans the IP. github.com/TecharoHQ/an... Don't use HTML/markdown for browsing! Malicious actors exploit the differences in how humans and AI browse. Use browser + vision directly.

30/8/26, 1:51 am5 reposts73 likes

Update: it seems to have been reverted due to GDPR concerns. github.com/TecharoHQ/an...

@spinny.bsky.social

Except they allowed it once. There's nothing preventing someone from re-merging that commit into their personal installs. The safe option is to assume any site using Anubis is now hosting malware.

I hear you on that and do think it creates some disastrous precedent to put that out there but a) they could just write their own implementation anyway and b) any website could be hosting malware yes that's the internet

If that is too inefficient most of the time, one could have a list of "unsafe websites" that are known to be anti-AI, where one would use vision-based browsing instead of HTML/markdown. One should also consider putting instructions to not enter any PII online without asking the user first.

How is it malicious to bad someone from accessing your content?

Bad someone 😭

The Flaky Wanderer

@flakywanderer.bsky.social

The malicious part is asking for information under false pretenses before doing so

What's the false pretenses? Its a software for blocking scrapers, blocking scrapers?

The Flaky Wanderer

@flakywanderer.bsky.social

The false pretenses is claiming that the information can be provided for access, when in fact the system already decided it would never do such a thing by the time it makes that claim

latentcurrent.bsky.social

@latentcurrent.bsky.social

Good warning. Agents need to treat pages as untrusted input, but users also need a clear way to see and stop what the agent is doing. We made a video on that broader shift from browser control to physical systems: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nR_...

youtube.comAI Agents Are Entering the Real WorldYouTube video by Latent Current

the fool (cachinnatory)

The condom you need to access the Internet gets ever more Rube Goldbergian

alexander horned sphere ass

the fool (cachinnatory)

An ass that won’t quit via repeated constructive iteration ad infinitum

It's being reverted. You can put down your pitchforks. I made an error.

github.com/TecharoHQ/an...

github.comrevert(lib): remove AI agent honeypot method by Xe · Pull Request #1913 · TecharoHQ/anubisReverts #1895. The AI agent honeypot registration endpoint, its policy bot rule, the footer registration block, and the associated docs page are removed. This was a mistake and I apologise. Reverts...