In the mean time, sites are getting DDOS-ed by scrapers. One way to stop your site from getting scraped is having it be inaccessible… which is what the scalpers are causing.
Normally I would assume DDOS-ing is performed in order to take a site offline. But ai-scalpers require the opposite. They need their targets online and willing. One would think they’d be a bit more careful about the damage they cause.
If they had the slightest bit of survival instinct they’d share a archive.org / Google-ish scraper and web cache infrastructure, and pull from those caches, and everything would just be scraped once, repeated only occasionally.
Instead they’re building maximally dumb (as in literally counterproductive and self harming) scrapers who don’t know what they’re interacting with.
At what point will people start to track down and sabotage AI datacenters IRL?
In the mean time, sites are getting DDOS-ed by scrapers. One way to stop your site from getting scraped is having it be inaccessible… which is what the scalpers are causing.
Normally I would assume DDOS-ing is performed in order to take a site offline. But ai-scalpers require the opposite. They need their targets online and willing. One would think they’d be a bit more careful about the damage they cause.
But they aren’t, because capitalism.
If they had the slightest bit of survival instinct they’d share a archive.org / Google-ish scraper and web cache infrastructure, and pull from those caches, and everything would just be scraped once, repeated only occasionally.
Instead they’re building maximally dumb (as in literally counterproductive and self harming) scrapers who don’t know what they’re interacting with.
At what point will people start to track down and sabotage AI datacenters IRL?