Comment by pembrook
2 days ago
Something feels bizarrely incongruent about the people using Anubis. These people used to be the most vehemently pro-piracy, pro internet freedom and information accessibility, etc.
Yet now when it's AI accessing their own content, suddenly they become the DMCA and want to put up walls everywhere.
I'm not part of the AI doomer cult like many here, but it would seem to me that if you publish your content publicly, typically the point is that it would be publicly available and accessible to the world...or am I crazy?
As everything moves to AI-first, this just means nobody will ever find your content and it will not be part of the collective human knowledge. At which point, what's the point of publishing it.
In case you're genuinely confused, the reason for Anubis and similar tools is that AI-training-data-scraping crawlers are assholes, and strangle the living shit out of any webserver they touch, like a cloud of starving locusts descending upon a wheat field.
i.e. it's DDoS protection.
It is rather funny. "We must prevent AI accessing the Arch Linux help files or it will start the singularity and kill us all!"