Miasma: Rust-Built AI Scraper Trap Creates Endless Poison Data Pit with Compressed Loops — 42 Points on HN

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Open-source Rust tool (124 GitHub stars, GPL-3.0) that traps AI web scrapers by serving hidden links invisible to humans but discoverable by crawlers. Scrapers that follow the links enter an infinite loop of 'poisoned training data from the poison fountain' with self-referential links and compressed responses to minimize egress costs. Supports configurable connection limits (500 default), custom routing for Nginx integration, and forced gzip encoding. A builder-friendly defensive tool against unauthorized AI training data collection.