because neocities' creator and maintainer doesn't mind the bots, i believe

they're a tremendous drain on bandwidth and they eat energy for breakfast and elevenses, how could that be true?

even if a webhost loves genAI more than red bull and general tso's chicken, even the most pro-genAI bootlicker can see how terrible for the bottom line this new generation of bots is

oh fun!!

the title is a reference to grant kirkhope's E-mu Systems low tamborine and Enya's Roland D-50, both of which show up here.

and apparently now i have to go through everything and change "NSO" and "NSO+EP" to "Nintendo Classics". Great. Yes. Thank you, giant multinational corporation, for making arbitrary changes to create more work for everyone with a website.

i suppose it would fall on deaf ears to ask the neocities site admins to use anubis wouldn't it.

feels like it. dude seems to like ai a lot himself.

i have comparatively little visual art on my site. I feel really sorry for all the dedicated visual artists with megabytes of pictures hosted here. To have all of that dumped into a funnel and forcefed to 100 different AI algorithms without a care in the world and distilled into mindless content makes me want to punch something.

ATP I've kind of just ... given up? Or accepted that my work is going to be fed to AI if I put it on the internet. I hate gen-AI and will never use it myself, but I don't want to degrade my work with "nightshade" or anti-AI filters and I'm not going to jump through hoops to avoid it getting scraped ... feels like losing a battle.

@dogblog 🫂

yknow... according to wikimedia, 68% of all traffic requests across all projects is from AI scrapers. plus the recent hitspikes on neocities. tbph it looks like existing models are being retrained or there's a new model coming out soon.

in the meantime though, some trustfunder sure is making it everyone else's problem.