It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges

Re:It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the An... by electroly on Friday August 15, 2025 @01:45PM (#44915313)

Presumably they just finally decided they were willing to spend ($) the CPU time to pass the Anubis check. That was always my understanding of Anubis--of course a bot can pass it, it's just going to cost them a bunch of CPU time (and therefore money) to do it.

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Re:It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the An... by zelphirkalt on Friday August 15, 2025 @01:54PM (#44915443)

I think so too. Maybe the compute cost needs to be upped some more. I am OK with waiting a bit longer when I access the site.

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Re:It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the An... by delusional on Friday August 15, 2025 @06:01PM (#44917763)

If I worked at a billion dollar firm, where doing this was actually a profitable endeavor, I'd reimplement the Anubis algorithm in optimized native code and run that. I wouldn't be surprised if you could lower the cost of generating the proof by a couple of orders of magnitude, enough to make it trivial. If you then batch it, or distribute it across your GPU farm, well now it's practically free.

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