Tony Bark@pawb.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoWikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitorswww.404media.coexternal-linkmessage-square194fedilinkarrow-up11.04Karrow-down115file-text
arrow-up11.03Karrow-down1external-linkWikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitorswww.404media.coTony Bark@pawb.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square194fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarekaty ✨@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 day agoall websites should block ai and bot traffic on principle.
minus-squaremaniacalmanicmania@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 day agoThe problem is many no longer identify as bots and come from hundreds if not thousands of IPs.
minus-squareWhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·22 hours agoVoight-Kampff them.
minus-squarekent_eh@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-217 hours ago all websites should block ai and bot traffic on principle. Increasing numbers do. But there is no proof that the LLM trawling bots are willing to respect those blocks.
minus-squareDMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·21 hours agoFWIW: Wikipedia:Bot policy#Bot requirements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_policy#Bot_requirements RationalWiki:Bots https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki:Bots
all websites should block ai and bot traffic on principle.
The problem is many no longer identify as bots and come from hundreds if not thousands of IPs.
Voight-Kampff them.
Increasing numbers do.
But there is no proof that the LLM trawling bots are willing to respect those blocks.
FWIW:
Wikipedia:Bot policy#Bot requirements
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_policy#Bot_requirements
RationalWiki:Bots
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki:Bots