It's impossible for the "anti bot crap" to work. And why would we want it anyway? Even if that were true LLMs have created an arms race and externalized the c

It's impossible for the "anti bot crap" to work. And why would we want it anyway? Even if that were true LLMs have created an arms race and externalized the costs. That is killing far more than ad supported content. Here's an example: https://status.sr.ht/issues/2025-03-17-git.sr.ht-llms/ https://status.sr.ht/issues/2025-03-17-git.sr.ht-llms/ Why does a website owner care if I'm clicking on his link or is it my bot searching for me on my behalf. Because the amount of traffic that AI DDOS bots generate is abusive and expensive. If retail sites and paid services are struggling to cope with the load, what chance do smaller not-for-profit sites have? Tell me this AI use is not an improvement of the Web. It's not. Quality search engines existed long before they got rebranded as LLMs. Used to be you could get relevant results from Google. More to the point any perceived improvement is not worth driving up the cost of operating sites like Wikipedia. Quite frankly I find this whole idea that it's worth turning the internet into a tragedy of the commons to avoid having to ask an actual human for advice on… paint rather ghoulish.