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Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. (i.imgur.com)
submitted 19 hours ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/35852706

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[–] londos@lemmy.world 39 points 14 hours ago (21 children)

Can there be a challenge that actually does some maliciously useful compute? Like make their crawlers mine bitcoin or something.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 59 points 13 hours ago (19 children)

Did you just say use the words "useful" and "bitcoin" in the same sentence? o_O

[–] polle@feddit.org 58 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

The saddest part is, we thought crypto was the biggest waste of energy ever and then the LLMs entered the chat.

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

At least LLMs produce something, even if it's slop, all crypto does is... What does crypto even do again?

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 7 points 3 hours ago

It gives people with already too much money a way to invest by gambling without actually helping society.

[–] xiwi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Crypto does drug sales and fraud!

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 4 hours ago

It also makes it's fans poorer, which at least is funny, especially since they never learn

[–] SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.space 9 points 9 hours ago

Blockchain m8 gg

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

ouch. I never made that comparison, but that is on point.

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