Disclaimer: I don’t have a background in computer science

I recently heard about a lightweight opensource software called Anubis.

Anubis is designed to stop AI crawlers that download a lot of data to train artificial intelligence models

https://anubis.techaro.lol/

Several websites have deployed Anubis:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME

My question is extremely simple.

If this software is so damn great, why isn’t it everywhere?

Seriously. Why isn’t it used on Lemmy? On Wikipedia? On CBC?

  • sbv@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Yeah. It’s an arms race. Any technological defense will be countered eventually. In the long run, I’m not sure a technical defense like this will be sufficient - we’ll need legal defenses that are enforced.