# Babble

Standalone LLM crawler tarpit binary. Generates an endless stream of deterministic bollocks to be ingested by bots,
with plenty of links.

## Why?

- Divert and slow down LLM crawler traffic, protecting your main site
- Potentially poison LLM training data (likely not very effective)
- Collective defence; the more time a scraper spends swallowing babble, the less time it'll spend bulling someone
else's site
- Do your bit to protect the public commons from those who would readily see it destroyed for the sake of an investment
round

## Usage

```
--cert <path> | Path of `cert.pem` (for TLS)
--key <path> | Path of `key.pem` (for TLS)
--sock <address> | Bind to the given socket. Defaults to 0.0.0.0:3000.
```

Deploy it in a docker environment. It's probably safe, but no reason to take chances.

If you want to be nice to crawlers that *actually abide by `robots.txt`*, perhaps add an entry to warn search engines
away from it.

## Usage terms

There are none, other than those implied by dependencies. Use it whenever and wherever you want, and in any way.

## Attribution

Fuck you, Sam Altman.