Haven’t for a while. There’s a bunch of open source projects that provide a Captcha and Cloudflare bypass proxy where you just point your scraping through the proxy and it takes care of the challenges. It’s rather trivial to handle nowadays.
A bunch of the torrent trackers are now behind Cloudflare so the pirate community has been maintaining many of these projects in order to enable their autodownloaders like Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, etc.
> Nothing that I publish here has come from AI or answer engines. Every word that is written comes from this human.
I think we're rapidly approaching the point where no one will be able to make this claim anymore. AI summaries and answers are ubiquitous and our knowledge or beliefs are directly or indirectly informed by them. We can avoid 1st order AI use, but it is impossible to avoid 2nd order and further exposure.
The water supply has been poisoned and everyone needs to drink.
I feel like we're going though an evolution of the web, and no matter what we do, it's going to happen.
The web is going to change (for better or worse) or die, and there's nothing we can do about it.
The web killed printed media to a large degree and AI will do the same, Resistance is futile!
To be honest, is it really that bad that the web is dead? I understand the value of a forum, but as far as the content is concerned if we were to go back to the days of physical magazines I wouldn't be upset.
> Both are well worth the effort of creating an account to read them.
Talking about how AI broke the web, while gating the content in a way that breaks the web, which they’ve been doing since before the AI/LLM threat came on the scene.
Their frustration with plagiarism, inaccuracy, and the "tragedy of the commons" effect on web content is valid, but that is human behavior - they even cite an example.
But "wisdom", if we are going to aspire to that, would look for the ways these tools can be used to better our condition as creators and thinkers, rather than have our opinion be led by a reactive moral narrative not grounded in pragmatism or reality.
This resonates with me. I’m willing to pay for content for humans by humans.
I am reducing my engagements with the web and technology in general due to lack of quality. It due to AI content, AI hype seeping through everything non-stop. Throw in ads literally everywhere, hyper partisan politics, phony influencers, social media algorithms that live off of FOMO.
It’s all gross and has been sapping the joy from people for too long.
Generative AI was a huge mistake. We also see the flip side of this in "AI detectors" ensnaring people who are writing the way they always have. We see it in the idea that "if you use too many em dashes, then you must be AI".
AI will be the final nail in the coffin of the internet. What was growth by enshittification has become growth by shit (AI) itself, and there is no going back. Welcome to the shitternet.
Dumb dumbs, ai is just a tool. Do you still use an abacus or a computer? Are you walking or driving a car? Should we ponder at the stars or build rockets. Not using ai is insane. It’s the most magical tool I’ve ever used.
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[ 5.0 ms ] story [ 42.0 ms ] threadFeeding AI with new high quality content only add to the problem. We must stop feeding it.
A bunch of the torrent trackers are now behind Cloudflare so the pirate community has been maintaining many of these projects in order to enable their autodownloaders like Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, etc.
https://docs.browserbase.com/features/stealth-mode#captcha-s...
Personally, I see this as ToS violation-as-a-service, but I guess ethics left the AI stack space a while ago.
I think we're rapidly approaching the point where no one will be able to make this claim anymore. AI summaries and answers are ubiquitous and our knowledge or beliefs are directly or indirectly informed by them. We can avoid 1st order AI use, but it is impossible to avoid 2nd order and further exposure.
The water supply has been poisoned and everyone needs to drink.
This is so useless
Talking about how AI broke the web, while gating the content in a way that breaks the web, which they’ve been doing since before the AI/LLM threat came on the scene.
(According to <https://medium.com/whats-new-in-publishing/inside-the-econom...>, they always had a soft paywall, but they diminished their free article limits steadily until it reached zero and became a hard paywall in 2019.)
But "wisdom", if we are going to aspire to that, would look for the ways these tools can be used to better our condition as creators and thinkers, rather than have our opinion be led by a reactive moral narrative not grounded in pragmatism or reality.
I am reducing my engagements with the web and technology in general due to lack of quality. It due to AI content, AI hype seeping through everything non-stop. Throw in ads literally everywhere, hyper partisan politics, phony influencers, social media algorithms that live off of FOMO.
It’s all gross and has been sapping the joy from people for too long.