Comment by diggan

> AI bots can't solve proof-of-work challenges because browsers they use for scraping don't support features needed to solve them. This is highlighted by existence of other proof-of-work solutions designed to specifically filter out AI bots, like go-away[1] or Anubis[2].

Huh, they definitely can?

go-away and Anubis reduces the load on your servers as bot operators cannot just scrape N pages per second without any drawbacks. Instead it gets really expensive to make 1000s of requests, as they're all really slow.

But for a user who uses their own AI agent, that browses the web, things like anubis and go-away aren't meant to (nor does it) stop them from accessing the websites at all, it'll just be a tiny bit slower.

Those tools are meant to stop site-wide scraping, not individual automatic user-agents.