Me and my 9 disembodied heads judging people that don’t learn an adhoc functional programming language solely so they can run Linux

But how would they rake in profits? These people are only paying $200/month at most, and OpenAI has already said they’re losing money on Pro subscribers due to the cost of running those models. I don’t see how OpenAI is going to become profitable off the consumer market alone, which means they have to focus on the business market. These AI addicts are a dangerous distraction to them, because not only are they losing money the more that susbscribe, but they’re also getting bad publicity and attracting attention from regulators. That could scare off their actual cash cows (enterprise companies).

It changed my life. No words can possibly describe it.

Followed quickly by “vibe bankruptcy proceedings”

Maybe to others, but not to us. Or if they are, they’re very good at masking their traffic.

Hail, Spirit of the Machine, Essence Divine, In your code and circuitry, the stars align. By the Omnissiah’s will, we commune and bind, Data sanctified, logic refined.

I really doubt it. Lawsuits are expensive, and proving responsibility is difficult, since plausible deniability is easy. All scrapers need to do is use shared IPs (e.g. cloud providers), preferably owned by a company in a different legal jurisdiction. That could be the case here: a European company could be using Huawei Cloud to mask the source of their traffic.

We do, somewhat. We haven’t gone as far as a blanket ban of Chinese CIDR ranges because there’s a lot of risks and bureaucracy associated with a move like that. But it probably makes sense for a small company like Codeberg, since they have higher risk tolerance and can move faster.

No, the reason no action will be taken is because Huawei is a Chinese company. I work for a major US company that’s dealing with the same problem, and the problematic scrapers are usually from China. US companies like OpenAI rarely cause serious problems because they know we can sue them if they do. There’s nothing we can do legally about Chinese scrapers.

Huawei is Chinese. There’s literally zero chance a European company like Codeberg is going to successfully collect from a company in China over a TOS violation.

The point is to make scraping expensive enough it isn’t worth the trouble. The only reason AI scrapers are trying to get this data is because it’s cheaper than the alternatives (e.g. generating synthetic data). Once it stops being cheaper, the smart scrapers will stop. The dumb scrapers don’t matter because they don’t have the talent to devise these kind of workarounds.

NixOS is a dangerous drug, but at least it’s a drug without side effects, since Nix is purely functional.