Posts by harry_wood@en.osm.town
(DIR) Post #AbtkAiRlttFZpL6fce by harry_wood@en.osm.town
2023-11-17T12:56:46Z
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@tante I'm a happy firefox user for the past few years. We're a bit of minority though hey? I went back to it actually. My impression was that about 10 years ago firefox was becoming increasingly CPU/memory hogging but these days it seems to be a lot better.
(DIR) Post #Ac2CyXEGEaXXUn0hkW by harry_wood@en.osm.town
2023-11-21T14:40:57Z
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@tante @maybit First thought: The Environment Agency? What's so bad about the Environment Agency?Second thought: Oh you mean EA games. Yeah those gamer types sometimes have dodgy politics.
(DIR) Post #AnGiFwn5IluBjKRU00 by harry_wood@en.osm.town
2024-10-22T13:11:28Z
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@gregorymarler Oh I just noticed I needed to follow you on mastodon.Also on facebook it looks like you got married!!?! Congratulations!
(DIR) Post #AsqeD8oDfiLue5pD2O by harry_wood@en.osm.town
2025-03-20T11:41:52Z
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Vicious criticism of LLMs from this sysadmin who has to deal with their scrapers: https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html The LLM scraper problem seems surprising to me. The makers of big new generative AI systems are mostly big-tech firms. Don't they value their reputation, or even the reputation of the AI concept overall, better than to commission these cowboys to do their scraping? But maybe they've already decided that, due to the copyrights risk, it's best done at arms length via shady intermediaries.
(DIR) Post #AsqeDAIO924xFwwohU by harry_wood@en.osm.town
2025-03-20T11:57:46Z
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@russss Are you saying the data isn't even necessarily being used for training LLMs? The problem is just correlated to rise of LLMs because LLMs are making it a lot easier to write scrapers (and I guess chatGPT will also happily advise on how to bypass mitigations)
(DIR) Post #AsqeDGn5zmCtOvMQOe by harry_wood@en.osm.town
2025-03-26T14:09:38Z
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More on the LLM scraper problem https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2025/03/ai-bots-are-destroying-open-access.html by @gluejar "Thousands of developer hours are being spent on defense against the dark bots and those hours are lost to us forever. We'll never see the wonderful projects and features they would have come up with in that time"