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Re:Anubis: Proof-of-work proxy to prevent AI crawlers on Thursday March 20, 2025 @10:48PM (#43431355)
Maybe there should also be a protocol to support paying a small amount of crypto (on the order of 0.01-0.1 cents per request) to bypass the PoW. The bots can still scrape it by paying, but you now price in the externality.
Re:Anubis: Proof-of-work proxy to prevent AI crawlers on Thursday March 20, 2025 @10:44PM (#43431331)
I don't think that type of adversarial stuff will work in general. A better idea is to just make the models learn stuff their owners don't want. Maybe put erotica (AI generated or not), malware code, and other kinds of offensive content to annoy the bot owners.