No AI Content

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/07/27/last-week-on-my-mac-%f0%9f%a6%89-no-ai-content/

20•frizlab•1h ago

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frizlab•1h ago

I do agree that no AI content is primordial and I’d personally accompany it with a “no AI crawlers allowed”.

Feeding AI with new high quality content only add to the problem. We must stop feeding it.

altairprime•1h ago

Set your site to 401 unauthorized with a basic challenge if an auth header isn’t sent, and set the auth description to “Enter anything to proceed. All human access is authorized. Unauthorized non-human access is prohibited.”. Crawlers can’t parse the instructions and will deadstop on them, while people will shrug and enter any password, which will work.

Anubis is also viable and popular, but it lacks the legal threat to AI of being able to file a federal hacking claim against a scraper’s unauthorized intrusion if they code their scraper to transmit an empty/invalid/valid authentication header.

noman-land•50m ago

Can you say more about why a crawler couldn't parse an auth deacription and also what is an auth description?

orkj•34m ago

> what is an auth description?

They are probably referring to the text in the basic auth "pop-up" which is usually set like

WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="my text"

makingstuffs•30m ago

Very feasible solution I guess the only issue is that we now have to add friction for legitimate users which will only accelerate their migration to AI summaries at the top of the page.

AznHisoka•22m ago

“while people will shrug and enter any password, which will work.”

I think you might be overestiating how much patience humans have when browsing a site

CafeRacer•1h ago

So... a reasonably stupid question - captchas and bot protection (e.g. cloudflare stuff) do not deter bots anymore?

wild_egg•38m ago

They're more of a speed bump. Deter drive-by scraping and whatever they call script kiddies these days.

throwup238•2m ago

Haven’t for a while. There’s a bunch of open source projects that provide a Captcha and Cloudflare bypass proxy where you just point your scraping through the proxy and it takes care of the challenges. It’s rather trivial to handle nowadays.

A bunch of the torrent trackers are now behind Cloudflare so the pirate community has been maintaining many of these projects in order to enable their autodownloaders like Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, etc.

bilgi42•37m ago

>Note the sponsor ads on the right confirming this theft was performed for profit, and in flagrant breach of copyright. Yet Google’s answers are perfectly comfortable using stolen content and even providing links to it.

cry me a river, boo hoo i have to visit your ad ridden website to read something and you're mad that google is fixing that somewhat

beardedwizard•29m ago

What ads?

ballenf•13m ago

> Nothing that I publish here has come from AI or answer engines. Every word that is written comes from this human.

I think we're rapidly approaching the point where no one will be able to make this claim anymore. AI summaries and answers are ubiquitous and our knowledge or beliefs are directly or indirectly informed by them. We can avoid 1st order AI use, but it is impossible to avoid 2nd order and further exposure.

The water supply has been poisoned and everyone needs to drink.

Mk2000•10m ago

I feel like we're going though an evolution of the web, and no matter what we do, it's going to happen. The web is going to change (for better or worse) or die, and there's nothing we can do about it. The web killed printed media to a large degree and AI will do the same, Resistance is futile!

sp4cemoneky•8m ago

To be honest, is it really that bad that the web is dead? I understand the value of a forum, but as far as the content is concerned if we were to go back to the days of physical magazines I wouldn't be upset.

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