Imagine how much power is wasted on this unfortunate necessity.

Now imagine how much power will be wasted circumventing it.

Fucking clown world we live in

That's just BattleBots with a different name.

this is some fucking stupid situation, we somewhat got a faster internet and these bots messing each other are hogging the bandwidth.

Not exactly how I expected the AI wars to go, but I guess since we're in a cyberpunk world, we take what we get

So the web is a corporate war zone now and you can choose feudal protection or being attacked from all sides. What a time to be alive.

Burning 29 acres of rainforest a day to do nothing

Surprised at the level of negativity here. Having had my sites repeatedly DDOSed offline by Claudebot and others scraping the same damned thing over and over again, thousands of times a second, I welcome any measures to help.

So the world is now wasting energy and resources to generate AI content in order to combat AI crawlers, by making them waste more energy and resources. Great! 👍

I have no idea why the makers of LLM crawlers think it's a good idea to ignore bot rules. The rules are there for a reason and the reasons are often more complex than "well, we just don't want you to do that". They're usually more like "why would you even do that?"

Ultimately you have to trust what the site owners say. The reason why, say, your favourite search engine returns the relevant Wikipedia pages and not bazillion random old page revisions from ages ago is that Wikipedia said "please crawl the most recent versions using canonical page names, and do not follow the links to the technical pages (including history)". Again: Why would anyone index those?

Generating content with AI to throw off crawlers. I dread to think of the resources we’re wasting on this utter insanity now, but hey who the fuck cares as long as the line keeps going up for these leeches.

And soon, the already AI-flooded net will be filled with so much nonsense that it becomes impossible for anyone to get some real work done. Sigh.

I guess this is what the first iteration of the Blackwall looks like.

"I used the AI to destroy the AI"

I’m imagining a sci-fi spin on this where AI generators are used to keep AI crawlers in a loop, and they accidentally end up creating some unique AI culture or relationship in the process.

Considering how many false positives Cloudflare serves I see nothing but misery coming from this.

So we're burning fossil fuels and destroying the planet so bots can try to deceive one another on the Internet in pursuit of our personal data. I feel like dystopian cyberpunk predictions didn't fully understand how fucking stupid we are...

Will this further fuck up the inaccurate nature of AI results? While I'm rooting against shitty AI usage, the general population is still trusting it and making results worse will, most likely, make people believe even more wrong stuff.

So they rewrote Nepenthes (or Iocaine, Spigot, Django-llm-poison, Quixotic, Konterfai, Caddy-defender, plus inevitably some Rust versions)

Edit, but with ✨AI✨ and apparently only true facts

You have Thirteen hours in which to solve the labyrinth before your baby AI becomes one of us, forever.

This is getting ridiculous. Can someone please ban AI? Or at least regulate it somehow?

Should have called it "Black ICE".

Why do I have the feeling that I will end up in that nightmare with my privacy focused and ad-free Browser setup. I already end up in captcha hell too often because of it.