> moved to iocaine which is slightly different in what it does, and that was fine until so many scrapers hit my site that it saturated my upload with generated content feeding the them

You're feeding bots poison without rate limiting them all to some small fraction of your pipe?

from all aspects of AI, i find this the one that is easiest to ignore. AI might poison your reading, don't let it poison your writing. Why not continue doing your thing? This feeling of estrangement is not new in a world where every usefulness has to express itself as exchange value. Just have a service provider handle the additional load and don't stop being a thinking, writing, picture taking and social human being.

I appreciate the decision to not run proof of work challenges. They not only punish all customers , they especially punish outliers with excessive challenges : long challenge factors costing minutes, and false positives so the challenges are presented many times a day, or where the challenges interferes with multi-screen oauth steps.

I haven’t seen an installation where the operator is tracking customer impact. They check the logs and say “see , we’ve screened 80% of the AI bots”. Meanwhile , among the 80% of bot traffic is a few percent of customers who are aggressively being punished without the operator being aware.

I also run a small side project site, and I get hundreds of thousands of bots visiting every week..

Maybe I'm just old but the font on this site is unreadable for me. But reader mode saves me. At least the clankers can read it...

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I didn't find this post particularly insightful, novel, or interesting, but it's notable how many people in tech are feeling a deep malaise for various reasons. I tend to believe these kinds of feelings come in waves, and in time it will pass, but it's always hard to see "the light at the end of the tunnel" when you're deep in feelings of frustration and meaninglessness.

  > how many people in tech are feeling a deep malaise for various reasons