Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
Article URL: https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/everyone-slowdown-but-me/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49678683 Points: 179 # Comments: 69
In an effort to protect websites from aggressive AI scrapers, a site administrator has implemented Anubis, a Proof-of-Work scheme reminiscent of Hashcash. This measure aims to deter scrapers by making the scraping process significantly more expensive, especially when conducted at a large scale. However, the implementation of Anubis comes with a trade-off: modern JavaScript features required by the system may be disabled by plugins like JShelter, potentially impacting the user experience for legitimate visitors.
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