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They're trying to protect against AI crawlers siphoning their content. Unsurprising given the article's positioning. Isn't it just a matter of time before we s
by glitchc 2y ago
They're trying to protect against AI crawlers siphoning their content. Unsurprising given the article's positioning.
Isn't it just a matter of time before we see content creators weaponize their sites? They may present text as images or require a user to solve a pictogram cipher etc.
- jsheard 2y agoI don't see how messing with text selection does anything to ward off scrapers. The article content isn't obscured in the HTML in any way.
- tonetegeatinst 2y agoI would wager that because the AI bots want to scrape all the data possible, then eventually someone will realise that they can setup a site that once scraped will poison the training data in subtle ways. Effectively turning the web scraper into an attack vector. The CSV score would be weird for that.
- spencerflem 2y agoThis exists already and is called SEO
- batch12 2y ago> The CSV score would be weird for that. Did you mean CVSS?
- tonetegeatinst 2y agoYes, I meant CVSS, just had a hallucination. I think I ate to many Christmas food....or maby it was the chocolate bars and Hersey kisses I consumed.
- carlosjobim 2y agoThe only thing needed is a paywall. Scrapers are not going to pay for access.
- jsheard 2y agoThis very thread is about an AI company going out of their way to acquire paywalled content. Maybe they wouldn't bother with this site, but paywalling demonstrably does not help once an AI company sets their sights on you.
- carlosjobim 2y agoThe comment I replied to was referring to scraping data from web sites, which is also an issue that people have with AI training. Feeding pirated torrents to an AI is a different process.
- TiredOfLife 2y agoJust like drm only harming paid users this only harms humans. Ai has no problem making a screenshot and extracting text.
- glitchc 2y agoOne could add adversarial artifacts to the image, making the AI think it's a turtle instead.