So this morning I woke up to an abuse report from Hetzner. Someone saw my back-link checker
in their logs, and because the 2 query a day request that was respecting the 304 was the
default Perl package log it triggered iocane
(exchange here), and...
When we're at the point that people filing abuse reports are saying:
It wasn't hitting more than that, but "Python/3.9 aiohttp/3.10.6" only hit my
site once and is still a bot request from Microsoft. I can't tell from the volume of the
requests whether they are malicious or not.
Which... huh, but also yeah, AI scrapers have made everyone paranoid in non-specific ways.
And maybe the web as an experimental platform is kinda over?
I don't know, just all felt weird, and is making me do my usual "why am I even bothering?"
whining.
geekysteven
@geekysteven@beige.party
A monsterfucker, but they're just into normal humans cause we're the real monsters
Anthony @abucci@buc.ci
The other day I had the intrusive thought
AI is intellectual Viagra
and it hasn't left me so I am exorcising it here. I'm sorry in advance for any
pain this might cause.
If anyone knows the proprietor of https://jak2k.eu, I just got an abuse report from Hetzner regarding what should be a once a day request to
two URLs on their site, and I'd love to figure out what's going wrong with that...
💯: Glen Malley
@glen_malley@mstdn.ca
"we're seeing an insane push for LLM adoption in all lines of work, however
inappropriate, because they directly exploit a cognitive bias to which senior
management is vulnerable."
Edit: This is a quote from the last line of Charlie Stross: Barnum's law of CEOs
Was just reading Ed
Zitron asking "NVidia isn't Enron, so what is it?", which dives into the fact that
they're claiming to be selling chips that don't seem to be getting deployed (which is also
interesting in light of that claim not too long ago that OpenAI was locking up silicon
otherwise destined for RAM that they weren't necessarily even planning on turning into
chips in order to choke out competitors), when this comes across my feed:
Bloomberg (on Yahoo): Apple’s Slow AI Pace Becomes a Strength as Market
Grows Weary of Spending
Via Jared White.