AI>In The News

Open source devs are fighting AI crawlers with cleverness and vengeance

CommunityNews

CommunityNews

Open source devs are fighting AI crawlers with cleverness and vengeance

AI web crawling bots are the cockroaches of the internet, many developers believe. FOSS devs are fighting back in ingenuous, humorous ways.

Read in full here:

7 comments
11 509 7

Most Liked

Eiji

Eiji

Ah, that makes a lot of sense … At least now I know why chatbot responses are so bad. :joy:

2
Post #3
AstonJ

AstonJ

Yeah I’ve heard so many horror stories. I think in part they do it on purpose, so the websites are taken down so that they can’t later sue them for copyright infringement..

2
Post #7
alvinkatojr

alvinkatojr

That’s a nasty way of doing things. It used to be that: we live in a man’s world, now it’s like we live in an AI world, deal with it…

2
Post #8

Where Next?

View thread on forum
Home AI>In The News
11 509 7
Last post

Popular Ai topics Top

First poster: CommunityNews
AI>In The News

AI Can Generate Convincing Text–and Anyone Can Use It
SOME OF THE most dazzling recent advances in artificial intelligence have come thanks to resources only available at big tech companies, ...
wired.com
0 1392 0
New
First poster: CommunityNews
AI>In The News

Greedy AI Agents Learn to Cooperate
Imagine you’re sitting at a casino’s poker table. Someone has explained the basic rules to you, but you’ve never played before and don’t ...
spectrum.ieee.org
0 1120 0
New
First poster: bot
AI>In The News

AI Is Discovering Patterns in Pure Mathematics That Have Never Been Seen Before
AI Is Discovering Patterns in Pure Mathematics That Have Never Been Seen Before. We can add suggesting and proving mathematical theorems...
sciencealert.com
#mathematics
0 914 0
New
First poster: bot
AI>In The News

An ancient language has defied translation for 100 years. Can AI crack the code?
An ancient language has defied decryption for 100 years. Can AI crack the code?. Machine learning can translate between two known langua...
restofworld.org
#code
0 695 0
New
First poster: bot
AI>In The News

Google’s newest AI generator creates HD video from text prompts
Not to be outdone by Meta, Google’s AI generator can output 1280x768 HD video at 24 fps.
arstechnica.com
#video#google
0 701 0
New
First poster: bot
AI>In The News

Hungry for AI? New supercomputer contains 16 dinner-plate-size chips
Exascale Cerebras Andromeda cluster packs more cores than 1,954 Nvidia A100 GPUs.
arstechnica.com
#chips
0 688 0
New
AstonJ
AI>In The News

DeepSeek (671B) running on a cluster of 8 Mac Mini Pros with 64GB RAM each
This is cool! DEEPSEEK-V3 ON M4 MAC: BLAZING FAST INFERENCE ON APPLE SILICON We just witnessed something incredible: the largest open-s...
#ai#macs/deepseek
0 5576 1
New
First poster: brennan
AI>In The News

The Great Displacement Is Already Well Underway
It’s Not a Hypothetical, I’ve Already Lost My Job to AI For The Last Year
shawnfromportland.substack.com
6 571 4
New
CommunityNews
AI>In The News

Cursor 1.0 - The AI Code Editor
Cursor 1.0 brings BugBot for code review, a first look at memories, one-click MCP setup, Jupyter support and general availability of Back...
cursor.com
#code#changelog#cursor
0 774 0
New
CommunityNews
AI>In The News

LLM Leaderboard - Comparison of over 100 AI models from OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek & others | Artificial Analysis
Comparison and ranking the performance of over 100 AI models (LLMs) across key metrics including intelligence, price, performance and spe...
artificialanalysis.ai
#google#artificial#openai#llm/deepseek
0 638 0
New

Other popular topics Top

Devtalk
General Dev>Dev Chat

HELLO WORLD (Introductions thread!)
Hello Devtalk World! Please let us know a little about who you are and where you’re from :nerd_face:
#community
481 6447 116
New
brentjanderson
General Dev>Hardware

Moonlander Keyboard (Mechanical) (Ergonomic) (Split) (Ortholinear)
Bought the Moonlander mechanical keyboard. Cherry Brown MX switches. Arms and wrists have been hurting enough that it’s time I did someth...
#hardware/keyboards#moonlander#mechanical-keyboards#ortholinear#ergonomic
212 16447 90
New
AstonJ
General Dev>Hardware

Poll: Which keyboard layout do you use?
poll poll Be sure to check out @Dusty’s article posted here: An Introduction to Alternative Keyboard Layouts It’s one of the best write-...
colemakmods.github.io
#polls/keyboards
10 5701 11
New
AstonJ
General Dev>Hardware

Planck vs Preonic vs Subatomic (Keyboards)
I ended up cancelling my Moonlander order as I think it’s just going to be a bit too bulky for me. I think the Planck and the Preonic (o...
/keyboards#mechanical-keyboards#ortholinear#planck#preonic
105 16166 47
New
AstonJ
General Dev>Dev Chat

How fast do you type? Check your WPM here!
Do the test and post your score :nerd_face: :keyboard: If possible, please add info such as the keyboard you’re using, the layout (Qw...
typing-speed-test.aoeu.eu
/keyboards
82 7310 31
New
Exadra37
Linux>Questions

What is the most minimalist Linux server distro?
I am asking for any distro that only has the bare-bones to be able to get a shell in the server and then just install the packages as we ...
#linux#servers
66 23964 24
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Backend>Learning Resources

Programming Ruby 3.2 (5th Edition)
Programming Ruby is the most complete book on Ruby, covering both the language itself and the standard library as well as commonly used t...
twitter.com
#pragprog/ruby/rails#published-book/book-programming-ruby-3-2-5th-edition
28 6382 13
New
PragmaticBookshelf
General Dev>Learning Resources

A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms in Python, Volume 1
Big O Notation can make your code faster by orders of magnitude. Get the hands-on info you need to master data structures and algorithms ...
pragprog.com
#pragprog/python#published-book/book-a-common-sense-guide-to-data-structures-and-algorithms-in-python-volume-1
24 3803 11
New
AstonJ
AI>In The News

DeepSeek (671B) running on a cluster of 8 Mac Mini Pros with 64GB RAM each
This is cool! DEEPSEEK-V3 ON M4 MAC: BLAZING FAST INFERENCE ON APPLE SILICON We just witnessed something incredible: the largest open-s...
#ai#macs/deepseek
0 5576 1
New
AstonJ
AI>Chat

How to: Run DeepSeek on Mac, Windows, and Linux!
This is a very quick guide, you just need to: Download LM Studio: https://lmstudio.ai/ Click on search Type DeepSeek, then select the o...
#macs/deepseek#guides#lm-studio
14 7706 10
New
Back to top

Sponsor Spotlight

coders51

We build reliable cloud platforms for business-critical systems.

AI>In The News

AI In The News ❯

Latest on Devtalk

Devtalk ❯

We ❤️ helpful members!

We reward our most helpful members via our MOTM scheme - by giving away a whopping 25 books per year!

Member of the Month

Devtalk Sponsors

Pragmatic Bookshelf

Practical resources that improve the lives of professional developers.

Erlang Solutions

We build trusted fault-tolerant systems that scale to billions of users.

Honeybadger

Real-time error tracking, performance insights, and observability for devs.

EEF

Supporting innovation across the BEAM ecosystem.

coders51

We build reliable cloud platforms for business-critical systems.

Manning Publications

Develop your skills with books, videos, and courses.

AppSignal

Catch errors, track performance, monitor hosts and more.

WyeWorks

Enabling companies to succeed by building software people love.

Pragmatic Studio

Courses that move you from confusion to "Aha, now I get it!"

View all our sponsors ❯

Categories:

Sub Categories:

Popular Portals

Devtalk Sponsors

Pragmatic Bookshelf

Practical resources that improve the lives of professional developers.

Erlang Solutions

We build trusted fault-tolerant systems that scale to billions of users.

Honeybadger

Real-time error tracking, performance insights, and observability for devs.

EEF

Supporting innovation across the BEAM ecosystem.

coders51

We build reliable cloud platforms for business-critical systems.

Manning Publications

Develop your skills with books, videos, and courses.

AppSignal

Catch errors, track performance, monitor hosts and more.

WyeWorks

Enabling companies to succeed by building software people love.

Pragmatic Studio

Courses that move you from confusion to "Aha, now I get it!"

View all our sponsors ❯

We're in Beta

About us Mission Statement See our Roadmap