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Linus Torvalds on the continued flood of AI bug reports

Linus Torvalds discusses the problem of AI companies aggressively scraping websites, causing downtime, and introduces Anubis, a proof-of-work system to deter mass scraping while minimizing impact on legitimate users.

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Linus Torvalds on the continued flood of AI bug reports
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  • AI scraping causes server outages and resource inaccessibility.
  • Anubis uses a Hashcash-like proof-of-work scheme to increase scraping costs.
  • Future improvements include headless browser fingerprinting to reduce user friction.
  • Users must enable modern JavaScript and disable plugins like JShelter for the domain.

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