Those were already public. The issue is AI bot ddos-ing the server. Not everyone has infinite bandwith.
> owners of popular Discord channels turning on the setting for phone # verification as a requirement for joining
I still think that Discord is a weird channel for community stuff. There's a lot of different format for communication, but people are defaulting to chat.
> web blogs wanting to put a "toll gate" (maybe utilize Cloudflare or other service) to somehow make OpenAI and others pay for the content
Paid contents are good (Coursera, O'Reilly, Udemy,...). But a lot of these services wants to have free powered by ads (for audience?).
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The fact is, we have two main bad actors: AI companies hammering servers and companies that want to centralize content (that they do not create) by adding gatekeeping extension to standard protocols.
Those were already public. The issue is AI bot ddos-ing the server. Not everyone has infinite bandwith.
> owners of popular Discord channels turning on the setting for phone # verification as a requirement for joining
I still think that Discord is a weird channel for community stuff. There's a lot of different format for communication, but people are defaulting to chat.
> web blogs wanting to put a "toll gate" (maybe utilize Cloudflare or other service) to somehow make OpenAI and others pay for the content
Paid contents are good (Coursera, O'Reilly, Udemy,...). But a lot of these services wants to have free powered by ads (for audience?).
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The fact is, we have two main bad actors: AI companies hammering servers and companies that want to centralize content (that they do not create) by adding gatekeeping extension to standard protocols.