* [email protected] [Sun 06 Jul 2025, 20:46 CEST]:
As far as I'm aware, or as far as anyone's ever made me aware when I
asked, there remains zero evidence that the high-intensity
high-anonymity bots some sites are seeing have anything to do with
AI.
If they are AI, a court just ruled that AI scraping is fair use, so
maybe you should offer them a zipped copy of your site and they
won't have to scrape it.
The actual reason for CAPTCHAs is revenue. Site operators would like
to give a zipped copy of their sites to OpenAI - for $100,000. And
they want that to be the only way OpenAI can get a copy.
The FSF disagrees:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/06/1737253/the-fsf-faces-active-ongoing-and-increasing-ddos-attacks
-- Niels.
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