Linus Torvalds on the continued flood of AI bug reports
Linus Torvalds discusses the ongoing issue of AI-generated bug reports affecting website functionality. The article highlights the implementation of Anubis, a system designed to mitigate aggressive web scraping by AI companies. Anubis employs a Proof-of-Work scheme to make scraping less efficient and aims to improve methods for identifying automated browsers.
- ▪Anubis is designed to protect websites from aggressive AI scraping.
- ▪The system uses a Proof-of-Work scheme similar to Hashcash to deter scrapers.
- ▪Torvalds emphasizes the need for better identification of headless browsers.
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Making sure you're not a bot! Loading...You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.Anubis is a compromise. Anubis uses a Proof-of-Work scheme in the vein of Hashcash, a proposed proof-of-work scheme for reducing email spam. The idea is that at individual scales the additional load is ignorable, but at mass scraper levels it adds up and makes scraping much more expensive.Ultimately, this is a placeholder solution so that more time can be spent on fingerprinting and identifying headless browsers (EG: via how they do font rendering) so that the challenge proof of…
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