Especially since the solution I cooked up for my site was to identify the incoming requests from these damn bots – which is not difficult, since they ignore all directives and sanity and try to slam your site with like 200+ requests per second, that makes 'em easy to spot – and simply IP ban them.
In fact, anybody who doesn’t exhibit a sane crawl rate gets blocked from my site automatically. For a while, most of them were coming from Russian IP address zones for some reason. These days Amazon is the worst offender, I guess their Rufus AI or whatever the fuck it is tries to pester other retail sites to “learn” about products rather than sticking to its own domain.
Fuck 'em. Route those motherfuckers right to /dev/null.
melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
nothing can be improved while capitalism exists; all improvement will be seized and used to oppress.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
How can authority not exist? That’s staggeringly broad
melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
given what domains we’re hosted on; i think we’ve both had a version of this conversation about a thousand times, and both ended up where we ended up. do you want us to explain hypothetically-at-but-mostly-past each other again? I can do it while un-sober, if you like.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I… Don’t think I’ve heard anyone claim authority shouldn’t exist.
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
That’s not really relevant here. This is more of a “genie is out of the bottle and now we have to learn how to deal with it situation”. The idea and technology of bots and AI training already exists. There’s no socioeconomic system that is going to magically make that go away.
revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I think the point you’re missing is that without the monetary incentive that arises under capitalism, there would be very little drive for anyone to build these wasteful AI systems. It’s difficult to imagine a group of people voluntarily amassing and then using the resources necessary for “AI” absent the desire to cash in on their investment. So you’re correct that an alternative economic system won’t “magically” make LLMs go away. I think it unlikely, however, that such wasteful nonsense would be used on any meaningful scale absent the perverse incentives of capitalism.
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
No imagination necessary.
I mean Dmitry Pospelov was arguing for AI control in the Soviet Union clear back in the 70s.
melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I don’t need it to not exist. I need it to stay the fuck out of everyone’s lives unless they work in a lab of some kind.
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
everyone remembers tomogatchi, they were like a digital houseplant.
doodledup@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lost on Lemmy?
limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
He is not wrong. Unless people start to take steps , the dependency of tech will be used to chain most of us. Granted, these chains will be the kindest and gentlest chains seen in a long time.
Social revolution lives on in decentralized services, like this; the true battles will be later though. This year is a mild warm up. I can’t imagine the challenges that await many
melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
no, responding to a post about exactly that thing.
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The problem you aren’t recognizing is that, until humans are no longer driven by self preservation, there will always be oppression in any system. They all have and will continue to breakdown. It’s easy to blame capitalism but even socialist systems eventually cave under the weight of greed and power. We are the problem mon frère.
melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
there will always be complications, sure. PERFECT may not be achievable.
but we can’t have GOOD, we can’t have DECENT, we can’t have OKAY until the last owner is strangled with the entrails of the last enforcer.