I don't think it's fair to compare LLM code generation to machine vision in this way. These are very different "AI"s. Not necessarily disagreeing with Doctorow, but this is an important distinction.
kimara
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I was hoping the author would advise against using this, because after doing this your website isn't accessible.
I don't think this is the answer to web scrapers, since it so adversely affects people with disabilities. The web is one of the few things that is structurally (reasonably) accessible by default even if making inaccessible websites (like the author's is now) is possible.
If you have to choose between accessibility or letting scrapers to access your site and scrapping accessibility, you should choose accessibility.
My understanding is that the tumor detecting machine vision is generally thought useful in addition to the radiologist's expertise. It basically outputs "yes", "maybe", and "no", which is more expertise respecting than generating somewhere thereabouts code, which the coder has to (now) validate.
This is why I wouldn't equate these tools. LLM code generation is marketed to do much more than machine vision for tumor detection.