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Businesses are generally in the business of serving human customers, not AI agents. Furthermore, if AI agents are so smart, surely they can figure it out for themselves.
gotta be a bit naive to think this way, no? "if x is so smart, why can't it just do y automatically?"
Ironically, this feels exactly like the various "semantic web" initiatives, only this time coming directly from the tech megacorps and not the starry-eyed "free web"/"open data" idealists. It will hit exactly the same walls too, namely that the technical details are completely irrelevant - if adopting a standard is actually a negative for websites, because it will separate the site from its users, sites will obviousl…
I love it when the people who just want to use technology to benefit humanity as a whole are dimly regarded as "starry-eyed idealists."
> because it will separate the site from its users, sites will obviously not do it.
Sites don't generate their own users. Users must discover sites. This allows a third party to dictate terms to them. Which we already know happens.
> especially if the water is obvious poison.
Alcohol exists. I think you might want to put away the "perfectly rational" assumptions about humanity.
I'd rather have a site showing how well my site is protected from being accessed by AI agents would be preferable, and advises how I can lock it down further. Basically, the exact opposite of this.
I'd rather have a site showing how well my site is protected from being accessed by AI agents would be preferable, and advises how I can lock it down further. Basically, the exact opposite of this.
Maybe we can start a new protocol where the html is encrypted, and the viewer must try 2^10 to 2^20 hashes before the decryption key is discovered. Same formula that BTC mining uses. It would be negligible cost for any single user but terribly expensive for crawling en-masse.
I'd rather have a site showing how well my site is protected from being accessed by AI agents would be preferable, and advises how I can lock it down further. Basically, the exact opposite of this.
ip route add blackhole "${CIDR}" 2>/dev/null
AI industry: "AI agents will soon be able to do any white-collar human job!" Also AI industry: "Please make sure your website is adapted so that AI agents are able to use it."
Does anything legitimate use this?
If I see a request for my page as markdown, does that mean an AI scraper is poking at it? Sounds like a good time to return a zipbomb.
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I might, except I don't, because fuck Cloudflare.
Last night I had a nightmare about cloudflare finally monetizing the "making sure you're not a robot" page. AI agents got the information they needed, we got ads instead ("why are you here? You're supposed to let agents do the thing. Watch some ads instead"). I woke up with such a bad feeling..
I'd rather have a site showing how well my site is protected from being accessed by AI agents would be preferable, and advises how I can lock it down further. Basically, the exact opposite of this.
Maybe we can start a new protocol where the html is encrypted, and the viewer must try 2^10 to 2^20 hashes before the decryption key is discovered. Same formula that BTC mining uses. It would be negligible cost for any single user but terribly expensive for crawling en-masse.