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- Comment on Based on this graph, and this graph alone, guess at what time I completely blocked OpenAI crawlers 2 weeks ago:
It’s best to use either Cloudflare (best IMO) or Anubis.
If you don’t want any AI bots, then you can setup Anubis (open source; requires JavaScript to be enabled by the end user): https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
Cloudflare automatically setups robots.txt file to block “AI crawlers” (but you can setup to allow “AI search” for better SEO). Eg: https://blog.cloudflare.com/control-content-use-for-ai-training/#putting-up-a-guardrail-with-cloudflares-managed-robots-txt
Cloudflare also has an option of “AI labyrinth” to serve maze of fake data to AI bots who don’t respect robots.txt file.
- Comment on GitHub Takes Down Rockchip MPP Repository After FFmpeg Copyright Claim 1 month ago:
Most people are unaware that even open source projects have licenses: Permissive license, Strong Copyleft, Weak Copyleft etc.
Some resources:
1. https://web.archive.org/web/20240409042029/https://www.mend.io/blog/top-open-source-licenses-explained/
2. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-source_software_licenses
3. https://fast.org/is-your-software-ip-really-your-ip/ - Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 2 months ago:
Just why? AI browsers have serious security/privacy implications.
For e.g:
1. https://brave.com/blog/unseeable-prompt-injections/
2. Blog series: https://brave.com/series/security-privacy-in-agentic-browsing/ - Comment on builder.ai has been tricking customers and investors for eight years – selling an advanced code-writing AI that, it turns out, is actually an Indian software farm employing 700 human developers 2 months ago:
It’s not true, you can check this article debunking this claim written by Gergely Orosz (Pragmatic Engineer Blog) : https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/builder-ai-did-not-fake-ai/
The racism against Indians is so normalized, trying to discredit and dehumanize Indians, it’s horrendous! Be objective and have some empathy…
- Comment on Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats 3 months ago:
The software engineer acknowledged that AI tools can help improve productivity if used properly, but for programmers with relatively limited experience, he feels the harm is greater than the benefit. Most of the junior developers at the company, he explained, don't remember the syntax of the language they're using due to their overreliance on Cursor.
Good luck for the future developers I guess.
companies that've spent money on AI enterprise licenses need to show some sort of ROI to the bean-counters. Hence, mandates.
Can't wait for AI bubble to pop. If this continues, expect more incidents/outages due to AI generated slop code in the future.