"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.
AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
Now AI blocking will get you more precise control over your website! Now AI crawlers will be allowed to grab your website! But don't worry! They promised and pinky swore they wouldn't train any AI on your data. So your data is protected!
Isn't that great!!?
Crawlers are a big fucking problem and we really didn't build the internet to accomodate them. Maybe if we said in 1990 "hey what if datacenters with Tbps connections will mass query all websites" we'd have a solution by now, but obviously that wasn't really an issue back then. Anubis seems great but proof of work to prove you are a human seems to have it's issues.