• fjordo@feddit.uk
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    8 days ago

    I wish these companies would realise that acting like this is a very fast way to get scraping outlawed altogether, which is a shame because it can be genuinely useful (archival, automation, etc).

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    7 days ago

    AI scrapping is so cancerous. I host a public RedLib instance (redlib.nadeko.net) and due to BingBot and Amazon bots, my instance was always rate limited because the amount of requests they do is insane. What makes me more angry, is that this fucking fuck fuckers use free, privacy respecting services to be able to access Reddit and scrape . THEY CAN’T BE SO GREEDY. Hopefully, blocking their user-agent works fine ;)

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    8 days ago

    ELI5 why the AI companies can’t just clone the git repos and do all the slicing and dicing (running git blame etc.) locally instead of running expensive queries on the projects’ servers?

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      8 days ago

      Takes more effort and results in a static snapshot without being able to track the evolution of the project. (disclaimer: I don’t work with ai, but I’d bet this is the reason and also I don’t intend to defend those scraping twatwaffles in any way, but to offer a possible explanation)

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    8 days ago

    If an AI is detecting bugs, the least it could do is file a pull request, these things are supposed to be master coders right? 🙃

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    8 days ago

    Assuming we could build a new internet from the ground up, what would be the solution? IPFS for load-balancing?