

Recently, I have also been seeing people talking about Anubis (GitHub) to block bots.
Weigh the soul of incoming HTTP requests using proof-of-work to stop AI crawlers.
In most cases, you should not need this and can probably get by using Cloudflare to protect a given origin. However, for circumstances where you can’t or won’t use Cloudflare, Anubis is there for you.
Look, I understand AI, in general, not just LLM, is very powerful and research is needed to develop better models. However, people and media need to stop presenting every random research project as the NEW BIG THING, as that will just make non-technical people confused and lead to unnecessary hysteria.
Stop hammering not-nails with not-hammers.