Comment on AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%.

cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• KumaSudosa@feddit.dk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not in this case, to be fair. The only concern is cost - since Wiki wouldn’t be opposed to them getting their actual data - and AI mazes are designed to safeguard more sensitive data, not reducing cost

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  • upandatom@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nice analysis. Need more smart people like you in the world

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    • KumaSudosa@feddit.dk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I agree with that assessment!

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• inbeesee@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Are there alternatives besides Cloudflare’s solution?

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  • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nepenthes does about the same thing but isn’t managed by a corp.

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    • brognak@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There’s also Anubis, but it uses proof of work not a maze.

      anubis.techaro.lol

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