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New comment by throwaway_fai in "AI companies cause most of traffic on forums"

throwaway_fai — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 20:39:20 +0000

How about this, then. It's my (possibly incorrect) understanding that all the big LLM products still lose money per query. So you get a Web request from some bot, and on the backend, you query the corresponding LLM, asking it to generate dummy website content. Worm's mouth, meet worm's tail.

(I'm proposing this tongue in cheek, mostly, but it seems like it might work.)

New comment by throwaway_fai in "AI companies cause most of traffic on forums"

throwaway_fai — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 18:09:25 +0000

Doubt it, a vanilla cease-and-desist letter would probably be the approach there. I doubt any large AI company would pay attention though, since, even if they're in the wrong, they can outspend almost anyone in court.

New comment by throwaway_fai in "AI companies cause most of traffic on forums"

throwaway_fai — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 17:59:05 +0000

Unless they're a big company in which case they can DMCA anything they want, and they get the benefit of the doubt.

New comment by throwaway_fai in "AI companies cause most of traffic on forums"

throwaway_fai — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 17:44:49 +0000

Keep in mind too, for a lot of people pushing this stuff, there's an essentially religious motivation that's more important to them than money. They truly think it's incumbent on them to build God in the form of an AI superintelligence, and they truly think that's where this path leads.

Yet another reminder that there are plenty of very smart people who are, simultaneously, very stupid.

New comment by throwaway_fai in "AI companies cause most of traffic on forums"

throwaway_fai — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 17:38:46 +0000

What if people used a kind of reverse slow-loris attack? Meaning, AI bot connects, and your site dribbles out content very slowly, just fast enough to keep the bot from timing out and disconnecting. And of course the output should be garbage.