On Wed, 2 Jul 2025 at 10:49, Aaron C. de Bruyn <aaron@heyaaron.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM Constantine A. Murenin via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
Cloudflare probably reports my visit attempt as saving StackOverflow from yet another bot! "Look how many bots we've saved you from!"
Hey now...StackOverflow wants to make sure your data is protected from everyone harvesting it to train their own AI coding models. ...so StackOverflow can profit from selling your data to people who want to train AI coding models.
-A
But will they be able to do that more than once? Who will contribute to StackOverflow the "Cloudflare captcha" site? They'll stop converting real users, and lose the existing ones, too, and will become obsolete, with such a strategy. Meanwhile, as has been shown by the countless citations, any new AI startup worth its salt, could easily find a way to bypass said captchas programmatically. C.