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...at some point, some people started appreciating mailing lists and the distributed nature of Git again.
Also, set AI tarpits as fake links with recursive calls. Make then mad with non-curated bullshit made from Markov chain generators until their cache begins to rot forever.
These are DDOS attacks and should be treated in law as such. (Although I do realise that in many countries now we no longer have any effective "rule of law")
These are DDOS attacks and should be treated in law as such. (Although I do realise that in many countries now we no longer have any effective "rule of law")
My question is, can we serve PoW challenges to these AI LLM scrapers that can be profitable?
My question is, can we serve PoW challenges to these AI LLM scrapers that can be profitable?
Yep -- our story here: https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024/07/ai-crawlers-abuse... (quoted in the OP) -- everyone I know has a similar story who is running large internet infrastructure -- this post does a great job of rounding a bunch of them up in 1 place. I called it when I wrote it, they are just burning their goodwill to the ground. I will note that one of the main startups in the space worked with us direct…
> just burning their goodwill to the ground AI firms seem to be leading from a position that goodwill is irrelevant: a $100bn pile of capital, like an 800lb gorilla, does what it wants. AI will be incorporated into all products whether you like it or not; it will absorb all data whether you like it or not.
At this point, I think we're well under 1% actual users on a good day.