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Which part of computer science is about getting DDoSed by billionaires who are above the law?
by inigyou 2mo ago
Which part of computer science is about getting DDoSed by billionaires who are above the law?
- TeMPOraL 2mo agoWhere on Earth do people get the belief that: - It's the SOTA companies doing it? - Scrapers are doing it for training data? Those are two assumptions I see in posts and threads around Anubis, that are taken at faith, and never once substantiated.
- inigyou 2mo agoWhat's your alternative hypothesis?
- mschuster91 2mo ago> It's the SOTA companies doing it? There are more than just the American top dogs (OAI, Anthropic, SpaceX, Facebook)... especially the Chinese government with all its infinite cash resources and next to zero ethical constraints. I don't trust the US top dogs at all, but I think the fear of discovery alone would lead them to not use "residential proxy" services. Non-US/EU entities however... who cares?
- figglestar 2mo agoWhy would they directly use a proxy service? I'd just launder the data scraping through some third party company that I could slough off if it ever turned into a news story. Not that anything would happen to them if they directly used these services anyway.
- shakna 2mo agoBecause Anthropic already admitted it? [0] [0] https://www.ft.com/content/07611b74-3d69-4579-9089-f2fc2af61baa?syn-25a6b1a6=1 https://www.ft.com/content/07611b74-3d69-4579-9089-f2fc2af61...
- inigyou 2mo agoIt says "accused of"
- shakna 2mo ago... It also has a quote from Anthropic, admitting they backed off their scraper after a robots.txt update.
- inigyou 2mo agoNobody who gives a shit about their software actually working obeys robots.txt. most robots.txt block everything except googlebot, which is an insane policy and you don't have to follow it.
- shakna 2mo agoWhich isn't all that relevant a discussion here. Anthropic saying they did so in this case, means that they admit they were the scraper flooding the domain.