Interesting read that does not address the ethics of LLM training.

Don’t use LLMs for fuck’s sake

It’s becoming increasingly apparent that one of the reasons why tech companies are so enthusiastic about shoving AI into every product and service is that they fundamentally do not understand why people dislike AI.

Arguments against the use LLMs for homework.

Flexible, scalable AI agents for everyone

Anubis weighs the soul of your connection using a sha256 proof-of-work challenge in order to protect upstream resources from scraper bots.

This program is designed to help protect the small internet from the endless storm of requests that flood in from AI companies. Anubis is as lightweight as possible to ensure that everyone can afford to protect the communities closest to them.

Anubis is a bit of a nuclear response. This will result in your website being blocked from smaller scrapers and may inhibit “good bots” like the Internet Archive. You can configure bot policy definitions to explicitly allowlist them and we are working on a curated set of “known good” bots to allow for a compromise between discoverability and uptime.

An open list of web crawlers associated with AI companies and the training of LLMs to block, including a number of crawlers sourced from Dark Visitors.

Another reverse proxy to limit scrapers.