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When you "break" the anti-AI software I have on my website that does not illustrate that the software doesn't work well enough: It shows that you are someone who explicitly circumvents people's stated values, preferences and borders. You are an abuser.
It's a test about how you treat other people, whether you respect their dignity. And you failed.
Access and consent are two different things. Ethical people understand the gap.
@tante
In the end most pages will probably have to go the troy hunt way and have people pay at least a symbolic dollar for an account and track abuse based on that...
@tante I wonder if that is even legal in Germany… They are circumventing a protection mechanism!
@tante Is your "anti-AI software" some half-asssed coinminer? Because if so you are an abuser and should think carefully before throwing stones.
@tante out of curiosity, what notable examples of this are there (aside from the thing when a bluesky user submitted an llm-generated patch to open-slopware)
@hexaheximal @davidgerard just linked a tool some Kernel dev generated to beat "Anubis", which is one of those kinds of tools
@tante @hexaheximal @davidgerard
what? how is anubis beatable? dont they have to use at least a headless browser? so it is heavy for scrapers because of the challenge?
@utf_7 @tante @davidgerard from a technical perspective, it is actually trivially easy to defeat anubis. it works by calculating a hash proof-of-work, which a standalone program can do too. and, of course, once the challenge is completed it stores a challenge proof as a cookie. the result is an anti-bot system that is really just a javascript checker with fancy marketing
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