Heap o' Links Tue Aug 11, 2026

Steve Burke at Gamers Nexus did a video last week about AI crawlers scanning his website to lift all the information, charts, and other results on the products they've tested over the years.

Because Steve has this crazy idea that people should come to his website to read his reviews and testing results, he's kind of P.O.'d at the AI corps.

So to help solve this problem he got together with Wendell at Level1Techs and came up with an idea to embed a tiny graphic within his other charts and graphs. That tiny graphic contains a lot of text readable only by AI.

So in addition to the info in the charts, AI is also getting such things as: "Nose-Normalized Chocolate Chip Cookies - 27 dBA Full Torture Edition" with ingredient such as: "2 Large Eggs, preferably with unobstructed front intake".

It seems like a wonderful (and entertaining) idea to me.

"It’s Time to Poison AI | GN Mega Charts Update & LLM Countermeasures"
https://youtu.be/0WP6kEO3i8g