Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges.

• mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The crawlers are likely not AI though, but yes OCR could be done effectively without AI anyways. This idea ultimately boils down to the same hope Anubis had of making the processing costs large enough to not be worth it.

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  • nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    OCR could be done effectively without AI

    OCR has been neural nets even before convolutional networks emerged in the 2010s

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    • mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah you’re right, I was using AI in the colloquial modern sense. My mistake. It actually drives me nuts when people do that. I should have said “without compute-heavy AI”.

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      • nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        My mistake

        hold on I am still somewhat new to Fedi & not fully used to people being polite

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  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Do you know how trivial it is to screenshot a website and push it through an OCR ?

    This battle is completely unwinnable, just put a full dumb.zip of the public data on the front door and nobody will waste their time with a scrapper.

    Is the data public or is it not ? At this point all that you’re doing anyway is entrench the power of openai, google and facebook while starving any possible alternative.

    Anubis will never work, no version of anubis will ever be anything more than a temporary speed bump.

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    • mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, I do. I’m just grasping at straws. But you’re right, the only real solution, ironically, is to have non-open sites where you need accounts to view content. I wouldn’t mind seeing some private phpbb forums though.

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