[HN Gopher] Fighting the AI Scraperbot Scourge
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       Fighting the AI Scraperbot Scourge
        
       Author : pabs3
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2025-02-15 04:57 UTC (18 hours ago)
        
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       | foxes wrote:
       | Maybe the botnets can start fighting each other, eliminate the
       | drifters to maximise inputs for slopclips
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       | Wonder if meta et al buy these kind of services, they already
       | steal so it's not a huge step
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       | Ye ai/ml was a neat piece of tech; it is intellectually
       | interesting to try figure out what it learns and how it learns;
       | and there are maybe valid uses, but capitalism and worse has
       | utterly consumed it.
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       | I don't have the words to quite describe it all, the farce of it.
       | Then you get people that talk about alignment, how can anything
       | "aligned" be built on such a foundation.
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       | What's the end goal, a techbronocracy worshiping a fake god
        
       | aftbit wrote:
       | So far I have not seen any of the operators proposing what seems
       | to me to be the obvious solution: sell this data set in a machine
       | readable format for cheap to the biggest scrapers.
        
         | MattDaEskimo wrote:
         | It would have to be aggregated data that's constantly updated
         | if it were to be anywhere competitive to just simply scraping
         | the page.
        
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