Considering how many false positives Cloudflare serves I see nothing but misery coming from this.
this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2025
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And soon, the already AI-flooded net will be filled with so much nonsense that it becomes impossible for anyone to get some real work done. Sigh.
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So the web is a corporate war zone now and you can choose feudal protection or being attacked from all sides. What a time to be alive.
There is also the corpo verified id route. In order to avoid the onslaught of AI bots and all that comes with them you'll need to sacrifice freedom, anonymity, and privacy like a good little peasant to prove you aren't a bot.. and so will everyone else. You'll likely be forced to deal with whatever AI bots are forced upon you while within the walls but better an enemy you know I guess?
That's just BattleBots with a different name.
You're not wrong.
Ok, I now need a screensaver that I can tie to a cloudflare instance that visualizes the generated "maze" and a bot's attempts to get out.
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Not exactly how I expected the AI wars to go, but I guess since we're in a cyberpunk world, we take what we get
Next step is an AI that detects AI labyrinth.
It gets trained on labyrinths generated by another AI.
So you have an AI generating labyrinths to train an AI to detect labyrinths which are generated by another AI so that your original AI crawler doesn't get lost.
It's gonna be AI all the way down.
All the while each AI costs more power than a million human beings to run, and the world burns down around us.
This is the great filter.
Why isn't there detectable life out there? They all do the same thing we're doing. Undone by greed.
The same way they justify cutting benefits for the disabled to balance budgets instead of putting taxes on the rich or just not giving them bailouts, they will justify cutting power to you before a data centre that's 10 corporate AIs all fighting each other, unless we as a people stand up and actually demand change.
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You have Thirteen hours in which to solve the labyrinth before your baby AI becomes one of us, forever.
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this is some fucking stupid situation, we somewhat got a faster internet and these bots messing each other are hogging the bandwidth.
nothing can be improved while capitalism or authority exist; all improvement will be seized and used to oppress.
The problem you aren’t recognizing is that, until humans are no longer driven by self preservation, there will always be oppression in any system. They all have and will continue to breakdown. It’s easy to blame capitalism but even socialist systems eventually cave under the weight of greed and power. We are the problem mon frère.
there will always be complications, sure. PERFECT may not be achievable.
but apparently we can't have GOOD, we can't have DECENT, we can't have OKAY until the last owner is strangled with the entrails of the last enforcer. not for more than the about ten seconds it takes them to notice.
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Generating content with AI to throw off crawlers. I dread to think of the resources we’re wasting on this utter insanity now, but hey who the fuck cares as long as the line keeps going up for these leeches.
So the world is now wasting energy and resources to generate AI content in order to combat AI crawlers, by making them waste more energy and resources. Great! 👍
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Why do I have the feeling that I will end up in that nightmare with my privacy focused and ad-free Browser setup. I already end up in captcha hell too often because of it.
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So we're burning fossil fuels and destroying the planet so bots can try to deceive one another on the Internet in pursuit of our personal data. I feel like dystopian cyberpunk predictions didn't fully understand how fucking stupid we are...
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