FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/ Please boost for awareness, reach and to public shame Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, Perplexity and other such AI companies.
@nixcraft Anubis is the website equivalent of hashcash for email.
It is sad that we have to waste computational cycles (meaning more electricity) to fight these things, but when they don't respect robots.txt there is little other choice.
@jernej__s @nixcraft
True, and there is less chance of you being used to create training data.
Though knowing the Internet, someone is going to make a version that mines for <cryptocurrency>. Because if it isn't one it is the other these days. :p