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At work, we've decided to block the Common Crawl bot from our websites, because their index is used to train generative #AI systems. We've also blocked or severely limited requests from IP ranges associated with various cloud providers, because they are usually from unidentified bots. 1/n
The Inner JSON Effect https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-inner-json-effect
I only hope it's an horror story but there are too many details that sound credible
Jake eagerly stepped into his new job, grateful for more experience and new challenges, craving to learn new software stacks and see what his new company had to teach him about the world of software. They told him he’d be working on some websites, dealing with JavaScript, Node.js, JSON, and the like. It sounded pretty reasonable for web development, except for the non-technical interviewer’s comment that it was all “built on top of Subversion” which he assumed was a simple misunderstanding.
Google’s vision for the future of search shows how generative AI is all about increasing corporate power.
Instead of sending you to different websites, Google has scraped the open web to generate plagiarized answers to keep you looking at ads on Google. We need to stop being distracted by AI hype and fantasies about intelligent machines, so we can push back on the real threats before it’s too late.
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/google-wants-to-take-over-the-web
"I'm a full stack engineer"
❌ boring
❌ corporate
❌ cliched
"I can make computers suffer in myriad ways"
✅ distinctive
✅ mysterious
✅ they deserve it
Dropbox is the next company firing a significant amount of people to pursue the magical dragon "AI". Dropbox. A service that people just want to store their files, sync properly and make them shareable.
Sure they need some bullshit generators. The whole tech sector is just brain worms these days.
jascha
Nicolas Fränkel 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪
Moos-a-dee 🫎
Paris Marx
Matt Blair
Kee Hinckley
hanno
JP
tante
Thomas Mertens