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.
#opensource #programming #Developers
@nixCraft@mastodon.social it is wild how once upon a time the response to this kind of problem was a trust-based system to avert disaster.
New AI generation of script kiddies will take it all down and accuse us of dragging our feet.
My company relies on respectful crawling (of court websites) and we work very hard not to be bad citizens.
The clay feet of giants, and when they crumble…
@nixCraft@mastodon.social lmao at the guy irritated at the anubis mascot
@nixCraft@mastodon.social Not all that long ago, everything I saw about “how to build a web spider” was VERY clear about how important it was to rate limit yourself and set a user-agent to explain what you’re doing and make it easy for an admin to block you
@nixCraft@mastodon.social Also honeyspot to kill everything is amazing. Build a bunch of links hidden to the public on each page, bot crawls it. ban everything that get the urls.
@nixCraft@mastodon.social This might be of interest to the Algorithmic Sabotage Research Group (@asrg@tldr.nettime.org) 🔥
#UnplugTrump
@nixCraft@mastodon.social wrote:
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.#opensource #programming #Developers
@nixCraft@mastodon.social es sollte mit großen Strafen belegt werden, wenn man jede Sekunde oder Minute Seiten nach Updates scannt. Das ist sicher auch kein Problem nur von open source Projekten - die Sprallos drehen komplett hohl, und das muss reguliert werden.
Counterattack and sabotage—by any means—massively and systematically.
Explore a list of offensive methods and strategic approaches for (algorithmic) sabotage, framework disruption, and intentional data poisoning, by @asrg@tldr.nettime.org:
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🔗Also, approaches for static sites, by @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social & @asrg@tldr.nettime.org:
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🔗#AI #Abolish #LLM #Tech
@nixCraft@mastodon.social the tragedy of the commons, once again. Fuck these vampires.
@nixCraft@mastodon.social gosh, I should stop procrastinating on deploying #nepenthes…
@nixCraft@mastodon.social 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.
@nixCraft@mastodon.social #wikipedia and #Linux foundation moved to #switzerland yet? #riscv did that under last trump administration and I thought that’s awesome
@nixCraft@mastodon.social Yes let’s worry about how much co2 we spend sending emails when websites resort to sending proof of work challenges to their users
@nixCraft@mastodon.social Just think, your dollars are paying to meet the energy requirements of these data hogs, thru tax incentives given to data centers or higher utility bill because of their discount rates on electricity. Someone has to pay and it won’t be them. AI Luddites Unite.
@nixCraft@mastodon.social Skynet triggered
