Why do you do this?
While I can appreciate the technical achievement, you know most users of forums and imageboards don’t want any AI content at all.
While I can appreciate the technical achievement, you know most users of forums and imageboards don’t want any AI content at all.
Money, obviously. I'd also do it for $30-150k/year
> you know most users of forums and imageboards don’t want any AI content at all.
He's not creating or posting any "AI content"?
Or indeed the users, who have to wade through trash invading their threads?
Or other legitimate users, who now have to answer captchas from CloudFlare just to access their favourite websites?
Ultimately this is a parasitical element, choking the internet. It will kill the things it profits from. Many will give up running these sites, you walk away with your $100k, and no one can ever do it again... you've not created anything of value, but destroyed it.
Parasites can solve captchas, people with accessibility issues and the poorest of people are the one being locked out.
Maybe my disability is CAPTCHA blindness.
The lesson here is that systems that rely on humans to do the 'moral' thing and fail otherwise are bad systems.
If $150k/year is “a bit richer” for you you could simply offer to pay that poster that much in exchange for stopping.
The other one that comes to mind is anacap, which I view as fringe. I read the comment threads sometimes and it leaves me with the impression that I'm the only one that thinks Von Mises and Rothbard are a bit out there.
Our group focuses on scraping for lightly-funded LLM startups who cant pay Reddit/X/etc API fees, and data aggregation for cottage industries (price comparison, etc)
But a LOT of the people in our niche do fraud and spam, so we’re steeped in that culture whether we embrace it or reject it.
Capitalism optimises for value to the customer, not for overall public good.
If you want to spam, you don't actually need to break many captchas. Just make your spam/scam/misinformation "engaging" enough and the social media platforms will host and promote your spam _for free_ and won't even ask a captcha.
But the rhetoric around the assumption that I was doing it for spammers was also interesting, as well as being more closely related to TFA!