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FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies (thelibre.news)
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LLM scrapers are taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure, and it's getting worse.

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[-] sudo@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago

I've been criticizing Anubis and Proof of Work solutions in general. Its my speculation that they mostly work just by requiring you to execute javascript not by being an actual burden on the bots CPU.

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