7 Jul
2025
7 Jul
'25
9:49 a.m.
* nanog@immibis.com [Sun 06 Jul 2025, 20:46 CEST]:
As far as I'm aware, or as far as anyone's ever made me aware when I asked, there remains zero evidence that the high-intensity high-anonymity bots some sites are seeing have anything to do with AI.
If they are AI, a court just ruled that AI scraping is fair use, so maybe you should offer them a zipped copy of your site and they won't have to scrape it.
The actual reason for CAPTCHAs is revenue. Site operators would like to give a zipped copy of their sites to OpenAI - for $100,000. And they want that to be the only way OpenAI can get a copy.
The FSF disagrees: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/06/1737253/the-fsf-faces-active-ongoin... -- Niels. --