AI models are trained relatively rarely, so it's unlikely this would be very noticeable among all the regular traffic. Just the occasional download-everything every few months.
One would think so. If AI bros were sensible, responsible and intelligent.
However, the pratical evidence is to the contrary, AI companies are hammering every webserver out there, ignoring any kind of convention like robots.txt, re-downloading everything in pointlessly short intervals. Annoying everyone and killing services.
I’m looking forward to visiting all of the fictional places it comes up with!
AI models are trained relatively rarely, so it's unlikely this would be very noticeable among all the regular traffic. Just the occasional download-everything every few months.
One would think so. If AI bros were sensible, responsible and intelligent.
However, the pratical evidence is to the contrary, AI companies are hammering every webserver out there, ignoring any kind of convention like robots.txt, re-downloading everything in pointlessly short intervals. Annoying everyone and killing services.
Just a few recent examples from HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45260793 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45226206 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45150919 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42549624 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43476337 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35701565
IMHO in the long term this will lead to a closed web where you are required to log-in to view any content.
Map slop? That's new!