#metabrainz

monkey: took me longer than I care to admit... but happy to make edits or redo if anyone doesn't like it: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jt-VQRLJNURswfvl…

zas: julian45: someone on Mastodon recommended iocaine to combat/mess with AI: https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/

If you have anything you'd like me to reply to them with, let me know (but a reply is not required)

(not a reply but) seems like it *could* be useful, though i'd definitely want zas to weigh in on the nature of the tool & how it might/might not help us:... (full message at <https://matrix.chatbrainz.org/_matrix/media/v3/download/chatbrainz.org/bjWUUASxuyTmCAaZqkuENRei>)

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* (not a reply but) seems like it *could* be useful, though i'd definitely want zas to weigh in on the nature of the tool & how it might/might not help us:... (full message at <https://matrix.chatbrainz.org/_matrix/media/v3/download/chatbrainz.org/VGwxOeUWTRniMllhqDODOzlz>)

the part that makes our situation hard to defend against is that it's not like the scrapers are making themselves obvious as bots:

- their user-agents are not obvious declarations of, say, chatgpt or the like; instead, they're (made to) look like normal browsers

- they come at us from constantly shifting blocks of residential IP addresses worldwide (there are services that are essentially tailor made for this sort of scraping work, where they pay ppl a little money to run traffic thru their home networks)