Finally deployed Nepenthes and changed my bot route from returning 444 (which is Nginx for "close connection and waste no more resources on this shit) to redirecting to my Nepenthes tarpit.
I set the corpus text to the episode transcripts from Star Trek Voyager's "The Thaw" (the one with the psychotic fear clown) and "Bride of Chaotica". So the output is a random mix of two sets of ridiculous plotlines.
I grabbed this bit of the log about 10 minutes ago, but the stupid bot is still thrashing around in the tarpit. Love it.
# Initial hit to webroot. Will it take the bait?
2025-12-05T19:50:56-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.228.29, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/", "-", 200, 891, "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36; compatible; OAI-SearchBot/1.3; robots.txt; +https://openai.com/searchbot"
# Bait taken and hooked!
2025-12-05T19:51:31-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/analyzing", "-", 200, 951, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:51:32-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/glandular", "-", 200, 789, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:51:35-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/mdse", "-", 200, 810, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:51:41-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/jock", "-", 200, 1090, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:51:45-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/Chaitin", "-", 200, 800, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:51:48-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/Goodall", "-", 200, 975, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:51:52-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/bickers", "-", 200, 1031, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:51:58-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/tucking", "-", 200, 1145, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:52:05-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/trencher", "-", 200, 821, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:52:13-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/dwarfism", "-", 200, 881, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:52:18-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/wane", "-", 200, 703, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:52:21-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/crudites", "-", 200, 742, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:52:25-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/glancing", "-", 200, 743, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:52:30-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/interwar", "-", 200, 1048, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:52:36-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/slippery", "-", 200, 1408, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:52:41-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/intersex", "-", 200, 915, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:52:42-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/deplaning", "-", 200, 643, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:52:44-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/playgirl", "-", 200, 983, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:52:50-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/fortieth", "-", 200, 1166, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:52:52-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/yow", "-", 200, 832, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:52:56-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/atty", "-", 200, 1052, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:52:59-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/hows", "-", 200, 1084, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:53:05-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/tuba", "-", 200, 1210, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:53:09-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/branching", "-", 200, 1119, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:53:11-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/sleepwalkers/understudy", "-", 200, 801, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:53:13-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/Bulgarian", "-", 200, 489, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:53:15-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/villeins", "-", 200, 535, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:53:17-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/upstage", "-", 200, 804, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:53:19-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/fostered", "-", 200, 1062, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:53:25-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/monks/anticommunism/Taegu", "-", 200, 1134, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:53:26-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/Galahad", "-", 200, 810, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
893 , TLSv1.3, "GET", "/killings", "-", 200, 1057, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:54:24-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/squeezer", "-", 200, 947, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:54:30-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/foisting", "-", 200, 940, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:54:36-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/imprisons", "-", 200, 1342, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:54:38-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/drivings", "-", 200, 1011, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:54:39-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/canvassed", "-", 200, 878, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:54:44-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/nauseate", "-", 200, 1008, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:54:50-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/granters", "-", 200, 1272, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:54:52-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/rewiring", "-", 200, 842, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:54:57-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/decomposes", "-", 200, 859, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:54:59-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/poulticed", "-", 200, 1186, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:55:04-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/harangued", "-", 200, 993, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:55:05-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/milkshake", "-", 200, 907, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:55:07-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/sentencing", "-", 200, 626, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:55:12-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/Potts", "-", 200, 1308, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:55:18-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/brew", "-", 200, 815, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:55:20-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/Malaysian", "-", 200, 960, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:55:23-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/salary/Martinez/ingrowing", "-", 200, 695, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:55:28-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/Letitia", "-", 200, 779, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:55:34-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/cocksucker", "-", 200, 760, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:55:39-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/swellheads", "-", 200, 869, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:55:45-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/nit", "-", 200, 1047, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:55:51-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/toolmaker", "-", 200, 936, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:55:56-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/idealism", "-", 200, 989, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:55:59-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/quay", "-", 200, 861, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:56:02-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/Burr", "-", 200, 684, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:56:05-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/supermassive/misinterpretation/Croats/eulogizes", "-", 200, 1011, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
2025-12-05T19:56:06-05:00 WAF-01 tarpit.mydomain.xyz, PROXY_IP_REDACTED, 74.7.242.37, TLSv1.3, "GET", "/bimonthly", "-", 200, 860, -, "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"