ChatGPT is an User on Fogu?

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venus14!
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ChatGPT is an User on Fogu? :?:

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What is this about? :?:
He he he... I'm coming for you!
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Kikki
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All the bots show as users. You'll often see Pinterest as a user, as well, and Sogou. Bots (search engine crawlers/web indexers, ad bots, AI, etc) that trawl the internet for info to register to their service. They're not actual users...they don't post anything. They're EVERYWHERE you go, online...you just don't see them. Since the big update, they now show up on Fogu where they didn't, before, but they were always there.

ChatGPT also uses crawlers to train their AI models. I don't know anything about it other than that, though.
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Just spotted this... Is it possible to block the bot? Cause this « Snuggly Bunny » is learning to mimic us without our permission.
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I doubt it. If you try to click on their 'username', you can't. They're not actual registered users in the way that we are, so there's no way to block them as you would a regular user. Plus if people/sites could block bots, the internet wouldn't be so heavily littered with them, posting horrible things and stealing everything in sight in every corner of the internet.

If Cherubae knows some way, I don't know, but...I'm thinking the answer is 'no'.
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I've been working the past few weeks on culling the bot access/usage of the public forms (Back Fence and Posting Games are private and cannot be crawled). Some bad ones have been blocked at the firewall level and some comply with user-agent initiatives. Those that comply see the forum index, but they don't crawl through the forum threads. There's just too much historical content on the forum for them to not be an annoyance.

Looks like there are fewer than 100 "active users" finally, of which 90% of those are bots and scripts. I'm still actively working on collecting data.
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Cherubae wrote: ↑Mar 10, 2024 10:12 am I've been working the past few weeks on culling the bot access/usage of the public forms (Back Fence and Posting Games are private and cannot be crawled). Some bad ones have been blocked at the firewall level and some comply with user-agent initiatives. Those that comply see the forum index, but they don't crawl through the forum threads. There's just too much historical content on the forum for them to not be an annoyance.

Looks like there are fewer than 100 "active users" finally, of which 90% of those are bots and scripts. I'm still actively working on collecting data.
Wow, that's awesome to hear!
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