[HN Gopher] ChatGPT creates phisher's paradise by serving the wr...
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       ChatGPT creates phisher's paradise by serving the wrong URLs for
       major companies
        
       Author : josephcsible
       Score  : 97 points
       Date   : 2025-07-04 18:31 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theregister.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theregister.com)
        
       | kristopolous wrote:
       | It's wild how many of the links are hallucinations.
       | 
       | Maybe the error rate is consistent with everything else, we just
       | eisegesis our way into thinking it's not
        
       | Kesseki wrote:
       | This is, in turn, making the world of comment and forum spam much
       | worse. Site operators could tag all user-submitted links as
       | "nofollow," making their sites useless for SEO spammers. But
       | spammers have learned that most LLM content scraper bots don't
       | care about "nofollow," so they're back to spamming everywhere.
        
         | mananaysiempre wrote:
         | I'm not sure if even for traditional search engines "nofollow"
         | means that the scraper doesn't follow the link, or that it just
         | does not include it in the PageRank or whatever graph but still
         | uses it for to discover new pages. (Of course, LLMs are far too
         | impenetrable for such a middle ground to exist.)
        
       | 9283409232 wrote:
       | I've been using Phind lately and I think they do a really good
       | job avoiding this problem. I don't think I've ever run into a
       | fake URL using it. As a search engine, I think I still prefer
       | Kagi but Phind is a great if you want a free option.
        
       | ks2048 wrote:
       | The study they link to: https://www.netcraft.com/blog/large-
       | language-models-are-fall...
       | 
       | It seems they are selling some product to protect against this.
       | So, I could believe the headline here, but less confident that
       | this is an unbiased look at the problem.
        
       | sublinear wrote:
       | > "It's actually quite similar to some of the supply chain
       | attacks we've seen before [...] you're trying to trick somebody
       | who's doing some vibe coding into using the wrong API."
       | 
       | I have renewed faith in the universe. It totally makes sense that
       | vibe coding would be poisoned into useless oblivion so early in
       | this game.
        
       | boleary-gl wrote:
       | I wonder if Cloudflare's new plan for blocking AI from scraping
       | the "real" sites...
        
         | zahlman wrote:
         | You wonder if the plan is (or does) _what_?
        
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