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That's a hard NO from me, dawg. If Lemmy goes down that path, I will just not comment. My account settings let me just block bots. I dont need my resources wasted so I can interact with the "good bots".
How much resources are we talking about here? If it's 3% of your CPU usage for 2 seconds, you're really going to have an issue with that?
Whatever solution should be negligible for you, but costly for a botfarm.
Here's a live example, not exactly onerous: https://demo.mcaptcha.org/widget/?sitekey=pHy0AktWyOKuxZDzFfoaewncWecCHo23
(Obviously in Lemmy's case you wouldn't have the additional unecessary checkbox)
That's not what I consider negligible on my phone, which is already resource constrained. Yes, I have a problem with an app that intentionally wastes my valuable resources. I wouldn't care so much from my desktop, but I mostly just use a desktop client to do things I can't easily do on my mobile clients.
No big deal. It's not as if my participation is especially valuable. I would just participate less.
edit: my objection is obviously more in principal than it is practical, but it would hardly be the first time I walked away from software (or a network) on philosophical grounds.
If we can't find a more practical solution, then is it really a "waste" of resources? Right now we're paying with much more expensive time and attention.
that was pretty fast. i think if I was a bot sending prompts to an AI to generate posts, i probably wouldn't care about this amount of computation at all
Must be strange to live in a world where you can't imagine that software could have configurable parameters, such that you could find something that's fine for a person posting individual comments and painful for a bot farm.
15 seconds to generate a post from the prompt with ai, and 1/15 seconds for the hashcash challenge is supposed to inconvenience the bot wizards?
If they're running their own LLM hardware, and their Lemmy spam posts are generating enough revenue to cover that, then I take it back, because that is impressive.
I guess we're fucked.
It’s not always about profit, it’s also about controlling the narrative. The more expensive that is, the less the narrative can be controlled by money.
it's a one time cost at creation of the account. Or at least that should be the idea.