WorkingLemmy@lemmy.world to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 1 day agoFOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companiesthelibre.newsexternal-linkmessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1334arrow-down11cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.orgtechnology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.world
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minus-squaredroplet6585@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38arrow-down1·24 hours agoThere’s two prongs to this Caching is an optimization strategy used by legitimate software engineers. AI dorks are anything but. Crippling information sources outside of service means information is more easily “found” inside the service. So if it was ever a bug, it’s now a feature.
minus-squarejacksilver@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·19 hours agoThird prong, looking constantly for new information. Yeah, most of these sites may be basically static, but it’s probably cheaper and easier to just constantly recrawl things.
There’s two prongs to this
Caching is an optimization strategy used by legitimate software engineers. AI dorks are anything but.
Crippling information sources outside of service means information is more easily “found” inside the service.
So if it was ever a bug, it’s now a feature.
Third prong, looking constantly for new information. Yeah, most of these sites may be basically static, but it’s probably cheaper and easier to just constantly recrawl things.