snooggums

Remember all the propagandaish art of the 50s, 60s, and 70s based on advertisements of the time? Like all the Norman Rockwell stuff, sanitized hippie shit, and 70s rock star junk?

Apparently AI is being used to pump out the same kind of thing for the 80s but more blatant.

I had accidentally fat fingered a downvote while laughing at myself. Fixed it so your ratio looks better now.

I like

W R O N G

(25 years from now as per the article)

Anything 20 years or more away is a pipe dream that isn’t likely to happen anywhere close to speculation.

Personally I think that claim is a decent one: user-initiated request should not be subject to robot limitations, and are not the source of DDOS attack to web sites.

They are one of the sources!

The AI scraping when a user enters a prompt is DDOSing sites in addition to the scraping for training data that is DDOSing sites. These shitty companies are repeatedly slamming the same sites over and over again in the least efficient way because they are not using the scraped data from training when they process a user prompt that does a web search.

Scraping once extensively and scraping a bit less but far more frequently have similar impacts.

Or find a more efficient way to manage data, since their current approach is basically DDOSing the internet for training data and also for responding to user interactions.

AI crawlers tend to overwhelm websites by doing the least efficient scraping of data possible, basically DDOSing a huge portion of the internet. Perplexity already scraped the net for training data and is now hammering it inefficiently for searches.

Cloudflare is just trying to keep the bots from overwhelming everything.