Comment by bitbasher
1 day ago
Wow, so to prevent AI scrapers from harvesting my data I need to send all of my traffic through a third party company that gets to decide who gets to view my content. Great idea!
1 day ago
Wow, so to prevent AI scrapers from harvesting my data I need to send all of my traffic through a third party company that gets to decide who gets to view my content. Great idea!
You don’t need to do anything. You can use any number of solutions or roll your own.
Someone shared an alternative. Must everything in AI threads be so negative and condescending?
Yes, they could roll their own, but you have no issues with this being necessary? I think the attitude of "just deal with it" is far more negative than someone expressing they are upset with the state of the internet, its controllers, and its abusers.
This is like saying "lets just get rid of all the guns" to solve gun violence and gun crime in the USA. The cat is out of the bag and no one can put it back. We live in a different world now and we have to figure it out.
There's trillions invested in AI. Don't expect any introspective insight or criticism about it.
> Must everything in AI threads be so negative and condescending?
Because if I own a website or a service and it is being degraded or slowed by some third party tool that wants to slurp its content for his own profit and don't even share, I tend to be irritated. And AI apologists/evangelists don't help when they try to justify the behavior.
You can implement this yourself, who is stopping you?
Citation needed
I use iocaine[0] to generate a tarpit. Yesterday it served ~278k "pages" consisting of ~500MB of gibberish (and that's despite banning most AI scrapers in robots.txt.)
[0] https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org
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One of the most popular ones is Anubis. It uses a proof of work and can even do poisoning: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44378127
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https://forge.hackers.town/hackers.town/nepenthes
> Citation needed
this reply kinda sucks :)
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