“The idea behind silicon sampling is simple and tantalizing,” they write. “Because large language models can generate responses that emulate human answers, polling companies see an opportunity to use AI agents to simulate survey responses at a small fraction of the cost and time required for traditional polling.”

Somebody invested money into this company. And there’s at least hundreds, maybe thousands, of other businesses with these asinine ideas about how to use AI. They’re all getting capital from someone who’s supposed to be smart because they have capital. Remember that when llm providers cost correct token prices.

The turd is in google play services not AOSP so its not upstream of Lineage or Graphene. Graphene should actually be safe because it provides an alternative to google play services. Lineage doesn’t but the user isn’t required to install google play services. Lineage users might even be able to install Graphene’s alternative (MicroG iirc) instead.

Ignore the AI slop image from that article. If you follow the SCMP article Tom’s Hardware is citing. You’ll see a bunch of these

Looks pretty familiar IMO.

Then you need to figure out how to use voyager correctly and reply to the correct user because none of this is showing up in HazardousBanjo’s inbox. Its showing up in mine.

I never even mentioned the DNC or “vote blue” bullshit. You seem to be eager to argue with someone who has opinions different than mine.

Idk why you think I was arguing that.

Historically, a socialist holding an elected executive office of a capitalist government is a precarious position fraught with contradictions. You can only meaningfully govern by making massive concessions to the ruling class and betraying some supporters. Communists will stake out the “he will betray you” position.

FWIW the Mamdani administration is very aware of this contradiction and deliberately made promises that he can do by decree, such as the rent freeze. But there’s also been some rather heinous concessions, like keeping on a bunch of Zionists in the admin, and also keeping on the NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch.

You were overqualified for the position if they’re making you go through that amount of bullshit.

Liberals make up more of the consumer class than conservatives. That highly marketable strata of people that have disposable income tend to be affluent, college educated liberals. Its why they keep winning the culture war and it drives conservatives insane.

Not much for open source solutions. A simple captcha however would cost scrapers more to crack than Anubis.

But when it comes to “real” bot management solutions: The least invasive solutions will try to match User-Agent and other headers against the TLS fingerprint and block if they don’t match. More invasive solutions will fingerprint your browser and even your GPU, then either block you or issue you a tracking cookie which is often pinned to your IP and user-agent. Both of those solutions require a large base of data to know what real and fake traffic actually looks like. Only large hosting providers like CloudFlare and Akamai have that data and can provide those sorts of solutions.

Costs of solving PoW for Anubis is absolutely not a factor in any AI companies budget. Just the costs of answering one question is millions of times more expensive than running sha256sum for Anubis.

Just in case you’re being glib and mean the businesses will go under regardless of Anubis: most of these are coming from China. China absolutely will keep running these companies at a loss for the sake of strategic development.

Places like cloudflare and akamai are already using machine learning algorithms to detect bot traffic at a network level. You need to use similar machine learning to evade them. And since most of these scrapers are for AI companies I’d expect a lot of the scrapers to be LLM generated.

Here’s one example of a proxy provider offering to pay developers to inject their proxies into their apps. (“100% ethical proxies” because they signed a ToS). Another is BrightData proxies traffic through users of their free HolaVPN.

IOT and smart TVs are also obvious suspects.

Or your TV or IOT devices. Residential proxies are extremely shady businesses.

The problem is primarily the resource drain on the server and tarpitting tactics usually increase that resource burden by maintaining the open connections.

This is what I’ve kept saying about POW being a shit bot management tactic. Its a flat tax across all users, real or fake. The fake users are making money to access your site and will just eat the added expense. You can raise the tax to cost more than what your data is worth to them, but that also affects your real users. Nothing about Anubis even attempts to differentiate between bots and real users.

If the bots take the time, they can set up a pipeline to solve Anubis tokens outside of the browser more efficiently than real users.

How about you just read up on Cloudflare Turnstile instead of acting like you know anything? Here are some notable methods:

• Residential IP requirements
• TLS Fingerprinting
• Canvas Fingerprinting

It’s still possible to get around these but it’s not easy. You either must have as good network engineers on staff as Cloudflare or pay some third party service to unlock it for you. All Cloudflare needs to do is keep their prices lower than the third party services.

And Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Chile, etc, etc.

WTF are you smoking? Most Latin american elections are more politically comparable to the US than Germany and Romania.

I doing the same thing but someone told me about HBA cards and that’s what I’d do next time I upgrade. Way more affordable flexible and efficient then trying to find a mobo with 8 data ports.