I've made an interesting #observation

Kevin Karhan :verified:

I've made an interesting #observation re: #ChatGPT / #OpenAI...

Whilst they got sued by someone and forced to publish their #scraping #bots' #IP addresses, they actively prevent people from using and updating said #blocklist automatically by querying it.

I'm pretty shure that this violates their original settlement and that even if I query it hourly instead of once a day that this doesn't impact OpenAI's #uptime or #availability or #traffic at all since as of writing this file merely contains three lines:

52.230.152.0/24
52.233.106.0/24
20.171.206.0/24

And the downloaded file is 48 Bytes (!!!) small...

Meaning me using their website as a ping target is causing way more traffic to them than anything else.

IDK what you guys made off this...

Personally I'm getting pissed off with wannabe-"#AI" that I'm turning more #hostile against it by the day to the point that I'm considering to point all that traffic towards #Hetzner's 10GB test file just to give both parties a middle finger...

#JustSaying...

#sarcasm #Enshittification #GPT #Blocklists #Blocklist #NetworkSecurity #ITsec #InfoSec #OpSec #ComSec