Comment by throw84a747b4

3 days ago

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>Not only is Anubis a poorly thought out solution from an AI sympathizer [...]

But the project description describes it as a project to stop AI crawlers?

> Weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests to stop AI crawlers

  • Why would a company that wants to stop AI crawlers give talks on LLMs and diffusion models at AI conferences?

    Why would they use AI art for the first Anubis mascot until GitHub users called out the hypocrisy on the issue tracker?

    Why would they use Stable Diffusion art in their blogposts until Mastodon and Bluesky users called them out on it?

    • Likely the only way to stop AI is with purpose, fundamentally sound "machine learning", aka, AI.

      AI slop is mass produced, but there's likely great potential for really useful AI models with very limited scopes.

    • I am not again AI art completely since I think of it as an editing instead of art itself. My thoughts on AI art are nuanced and worth discussing some other day, lets talk about the author of anubis/story of anubis

      So, I hope you know the entire story behind Anubis, firstly they were hosting their own git server (I think?) and amazon's ai related department was basically ddosing their server in some sense by trying to scrape it and they created anubis in a way to prevent that.

      The idea isn't that new, it is just proof of work and they created it firstly for their own use and I think that they are An AI researcher/ related to AI, so for them using AI pics wasn't that big of a deal and pretty sure that they had some reason behind it and even that has been changed.

      Stop whining about free projects/labour man. The same people comment oh well these AI scrapers are scraping so many websites and taking livelihood of website makers and now you have someone who just gave it to ya for free and you are nitpicking the wrong things.

      You can just fork it without the anime images or without the AI thing if you don't align with them and their philosophy.

      Man now I feel the mandela effect as I read it somewhere on their blog or any thing that they themselves feel the hypocrisy or something along that (pardon me if I am wrong, I usually am) But they themselves (I think?) would like to get rid of working in the AI industry while making anti AI scraper but they might need more donations iirc and they themselves know the hypocrisy.

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