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The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers (www.404media.co)

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[-] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 79 points 3 weeks ago

Exactly. It's called proof-of-work and was originally invented to reduce spam emails but was later used by Bitcoin to control its growth speed

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 9 points 3 weeks ago

It's funby that older captchas could be viewed as proof of work algorithms now because image recognition is so good. (From using captchas.)

[-] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Interesting stance. I have bought many tens of thousand of captcha for legitimate reasons, and I have now completely lost faith in them

[-] Ferk@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That's actually a good idea. A very simple "click the frog" captcha might be solvable by an AI but it would work as a way to make it more expensive for crawlers without wasting compute resources (energy!) on the user or slowing down old devices to a crawl. So in some ways it could be a better alternative to Anubis.