Publishers Turn to LLM Honeypots to Force AI Scrapers to Pay
A growing band of publishers and e‑commerce sites are planting deceptive “LLM honeypots” that trap AI crawlers in endless, plausible‑but‑useless content or proof‑of‑work challenges. The aim is to inflate the bots’ compute costs and poison their training data, making large‑scale scraping uneconomic.