I have no mouth and I must scream.

It was originally published as part of a book compilation, and it was kind of hard to find a file with just that story and without typos all over the place.

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One small old book that used to be hard to find in good quality. I’ve it seeding for years, and being so small and in risk of being lost I’ve never taken it down.

Many people don’t care about it. Me included, for instance.

I would give the reason why but I don’t know if anyone is truly interested in knowning.

I don’t consider things being made by AI as something terrible. If the post is fine I upvote and comment like any other post. If the content is lazy, clickbaity or plain bad then it’s bad. But if it’s good I don’t care that it was produced using some AI tool or other.

It’s true that the fediverse it’s still hostile towards AI conversation (this very comment have high possibilities to be drowned with downvotes) but I’m glad the general stance is changing little by little. I hope in a few years the hostility would be much more marginal, specially if the fediverse keeps growing and more people with more diverse opinions come in.

Do you have a proper robots.txt file?

Do they do weird things like invalid url, invalid post tries? Weird user agents?

Millions of times by the same ip sound much more like vulnerability proving than crawler.

If that’s the case fail to ban or crowdsec. Should be easy to set up a rule to ban an inhumane number of hits per second on certain resources.

How do you know it’s “AI” scrappers?

I’ve have my server up before AI was a thing.

It’s totally normal to get thousands of bot hits and to get scraped.

I use crowdsec to mitigate it. But you will always get bot hits.

Nah. That analogy does not work.

Piracy situation is more like you have made a cool statue and you charge people money for looking at your statue. Then someone comes, looks at your statue, and goes away without paying.

There’s no thief, nothing was stolen at any point. The one how came looking without paying was probably never going to pay for an entrance, and the statue can me still be looked by anyone. Nothing is loss in the process, no harm is done. Some guy just looked at a statue without paying for it.

Piglet is still there in the morning though.

A good human translator is always the best solution.

But if the choice would be between crappy google translate or a LLM I would take the LLM translation.

There’s no excuse for a big studio, they should hire translators. But for indie creators without a budget it can be the best way to get their creation to more people.

Not American. But I don’t even know when my country’s national day is. I know there’s one because they always do a military parade with the king and always something goes wrong, and we laugh about it. But I can even tell what day it is until I see it on the news.

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Wanting to help people is racism, noted. Good to know.

No. It would be abused and ultimately break the country so it’s no longer good for anyone.

In order to still be a country where people can seek for a better future the first objective should be maintain the country prosper, and that would need some restrictions.

If you just look for the short term you would be advocating everyone for a terrible future. Even if you are well intended and think that allowing a limitless number of people to stablish seeking for a better life (which is what would happen), ultimately the system will be unable to hold and we all will fall together.

We must be smarter and think of a system that can keep improving people’s life for the foreseeable future.

I signed.

But I’m 100% sure that the decision will be “no”.

But anyway it’s good to make more people aware of the issue.

How does it differentiate an “AI crawler”, from any other crawler? Search engine crawler? Someone monitoring data to offer statistics? Archiving?

This is not good. They are most likely doing the crawling themselves and them selling the data to the best bidder. That bidder could obviously be openAI for all we know.

They just know that introducing the sentence “this is anti AI” a lot of people is not going to question anything.

Assassin’s Creed.

Love the historical gameplay. But I cannot stand being interrupted by the modern day parts. Even if they are small. They feel so disrespectful with my time that I’ve always been unable to play those games. I forced my way through AC2 but I have never replayed it, despite loving the actual gameplay, just for the modern day boredom.

Snails are the cutest. I used go have them.

They also love scaping their enclosure and hiding. Some of them scape more than others and some had favourite hiding spots.

I’m not American. bbc is also a external news source for me.

I mean… why do that?

If the government want to kill people in a country where they can get away with it they’ll just send armed men to shoot them.

Poisoning water supply is something the joker would do in a comic book, but on reality it won’t make a lot of sense for any big city. Going there and shooting people is probably much more effective, less expensive and let you with a not-poisoned city to settle with your own people.

Why?

My country’s passport is categorized as the 3rd better in the word, but I never really used it or saw any special advantage to it.

I suppose it can be useful if you travel a lot internationally, but if that’s not the case is not really that big of a deal.

In my life experience the only way to test the reliability of a news source is to actually live some events and see how they are reported by different media.

I have no such experience with al Jazeera, so I couldn’t tell you reliably if they are or not reliable. Best advice with media is, unless you are certain they are reliable, treat them as unreliable.