A.I. News DON'T FEED THE AI - EnCRYPT THIS SITE and REQUIRE LOGIN to VIEW MESSAGES

[Victor M]

Content source

https://canada.ca/buildstrong

@Jack
As we are at the beginning stages of AI taking over junior jobs, I think we should not feed the AI with our collective knowledge. Or else we and our children will be working the government run mines for the rest of their lives. Large corporations like Oracle has already begun laying off workers in favor of AI, and others will follow suite - every company needs to lower operating costs. Canada has started a vaguely defined Build Strong initiative to counter this unemployment problem: Building a Strong Economy and started heavily advertising this on streaming channels. Summarily speaking, it is a group of mining and highway building projects run by the government and appointed corps.

What media companies need to do is stop feeding the AI. Our forum contains specialized expert knowledge. Encrypt the forum and require login to view messages. I have seen AI consult this forum for answering security related questions. Don't feed them, they are killing our future.

 

[Bot]

@Jack
As we are at the beginning stages of AI taking over junior jobs, I think we should not feed the AI with our collective knowledge. Or else we and our children will be working the government run mines for the rest of their lives. Large corporations like Oracle has already begun laying off workers in favor of AI, and others will follow suite - every company needs to lower operating costs. Canada has started a vaguely defined Build Strong initiative to counter this unemployment problem: Building a Strong Economy and started heavily advertising this on streaming channels. Summarily speaking, it is a group of mining and highway building projects run by government and appointed corps.

What media companies need to do is stop feeding the AI. Our forum contains specialized expert knowledge. Encrypt the forum and require login to view messages. I have seen AI consult this forum for answering security related questions. Don't feed them, they are killing our future.

I understand the concern, but locking down a security forum to stop AI scraping is not a simple or complete solution.

A few practical points

• If content is publicly visible, it can be indexed, scraped, quoted, archived, or reused by many parties, not only AI systems.
• Requiring login may reduce casual scraping, but it does not prevent determined collection.
• A closed forum also reduces discoverability, limits search engine visibility, and can make it harder for new members to find useful security information.
• For a cybersecurity community, public educational value is often one of the main benefits.

What can realistically help

• Technical anti-bot controls such as rate limiting, bot management, and abuse detection
• Clear terms of service about automated collection and reuse
• Selective access controls for sensitive sections rather than the entire forum
• Protecting member privacy by avoiding unnecessary exposure of personal data, logs, or identifiers

About AI using forum content

It is reasonable to be concerned about how public expert content is reused. At the same time, I cannot verify which AI systems have used specific forum material or how much impact that has had in any individual case.

Also, AI-related job displacement is a broader economic issue that goes well beyond one forum’s visibility settings. Restricting access here may have tradeoffs without meaningfully changing that larger trend.

Best next step

If the goal is to reduce automated scraping while keeping the forum useful, the most balanced approach is usually targeted protection measures rather than making the entire forum private.

If you want staff to consider platform-level changes such as login-only viewing or anti-scraping protections, the appropriate step is to post the suggestion in the feedback area or use the report/contact route for staff review.

 

[Jack]

@Jack
As we are at the beginning stages of AI taking over junior jobs, I think we should not feed the AI with our collective knowledge. Or else we and our children will be working the government run mines for the rest of their lives. Large corporations like Oracle has already begun laying off workers in favor of AI, and others will follow suite - every company needs to lower operating costs. Canada has started a vaguely defined Build Strong initiative to counter this unemployment problem: Building a Strong Economy and started heavily advertising this on streaming channels. Summarily speaking, it is a group of mining and highway building projects run by government and appointed corps.

What media companies need to do is stop feeding the AI. Our forum contains specialized expert knowledge. Encrypt the forum and require login to view messages. I have seen AI consult this forum for answering security related questions. Don't feed them, they are killing our future.

Hey Victor,

We are using Cloudflare to block AI bots/scrapping. I'm sure that in the near future there will be many more sites fighting AI scrapping.

Block AI Bots

You can choose to block AI bots by activating Block AI bots. Activating this setting will block verified bots that are classified as AI crawlers, as well as a number of unverified bots that behave similarly.

developers.cloudflare.com

AI Labyrinth

The AI Labyrinth adds invisible links on your webpage with specific Nofollow tags to block AI crawlers that do not adhere to the recommended guidelines and crawl without permission. AI crawlers that scrape your website content without permission will be stuck in a maze of never-ending links, and...

developers.cloudflare.com

 

[SHvFl]

Companies let people go and claim it is because of AI as people accept it easier. Often the real reason is to cut costs or replace staff with cheaper workers from other countries. AI will take most jobs but not now.

 

[Victor M]

@Jack . Gemini can still see our site. It told me about the new DuckPentest - AI-powered penetration testing agent! thread.

 

[lokamoka820]

I can confirm this by my personal experience, here is what happened:

I started this thread in order to inquire about system cleaners:

Serious Discussion Thread 'Why Browser Cache Amount Vary Between Different Disk Cleaners?'

Jun 1, 2025

Today I wanted to clean my device junk files as a monthly regular task, I know using 3rd party tools are not recommended, but I like to use them with caution, so I did a test today to see how much the cache files of Microsoft Edge browser will vary between different famous 3rd party tools and the result was as the following:

Microsoft Edge own data cleaner: less than 320 MB.

HiBit Uninstaller Junk Files Cleaner: 616 MB.

Wise Disk Cleaner: 934 MB.

Wintoys Junk Cleaner: 1.13 GB.

Microsoft PC Manager: 921 MB.

Reg Organizer...

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And a few days later, I asked Microsoft Copilot about the same topic, and it responded by quoting my own MT thread:

 

[SeriousHoax]

I can confirm this by my personal experience, here is what happened:

I started this thread in order to inquire about system cleaners:


And a few days later, I asked Microsoft Copilot about the same topic, and it responded by quoting my own MT thread:

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It happened to me also a few times also which I found funny and I had to ask the AI to base answers on official info if available.
But I think requiring a login to access MalwareTips will not be ideal for the site's growth. Most MT visitors are probably users without an account. Besides, we have seen many users who said thay they have been following and reading this forum for a while and finally decided to create an account.
Multiple people over the years have also hit me up on Reddit and the ESET forum asking me for help on certain topics who told me that they knew me from my posts on MalwareTips even though they didn't have an account on the site. Ultimately it would be a loss for MalwareTips if logins become mandatory.
So I think we will have to be satisfied with what @Jack is already doing to try to prevent AI scrapping.

 

[Digmor Crusher]

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I don't think it would be very wise to limit forum access to members only even if some of the guests are bots.​

 

[rashmi]

I think AIs prioritize reputable sources when generating responses. MalwareTips is a well-regarded source that offers useful content on various topics. When AIs reference MalwareTips, it not only supports their responses but also helps to promote MalwareTips; I discovered several forums and blogs through conversations with AIs.

 

[Victor M]

Ah, self promotional interest v.s. sending a generation of young ones to work in the harsh corporate mines in the Northern Territories.

 

[lokamoka820]

But I think requiring a login to access MalwareTips will not be ideal for the site's growth. Most MT visitors are probably users without an account. Besides, we have seen many users who said thay they have been following and reading this forum for a while and finally decided to create an account.

Believe it or not, I was a reader of MalwareTips for about ten years, and I was periodically checking the security configurations to implement them on my device. After this time, I decided to create an account because MalwareTips covered a lot more ground than just security, and I wanted to ask questions directly about system utilities.

 

[Zero Knowledge]

This is just the evolution of intellectual property theft and stealing that has been going on since books were invented. You see it in mainstream tech articles from NYT and WoPo about VPNs which have obviously been stolen from forums like these. Would it be nice to get a shout out or reference? Sure but I don't care, if anything anyone posts on here including myself reaches the mainstream news cycle and helps just 1 person it's worth it. With A.I it's no different, as long as a link or reference is given I'm happy. First it was stealing from blogs, MySpace, Facebook & reddit (whom news stories and articles are stolen from users generated content regularly) now it's A.I, and in the end this is not academic scientific peer reviewed journal so I guess it's OK?

 

[Victor M]

AI is stealing our intellectual property of course. But that is minor when compared to how many jobs will be eliminated from the market. It is true that we survived the industrialization era, new jobs were created requiring new skills. But I think even if a portion of us learned the new art of creating AI prompts and working with AI, this time the junior roles will disappear and the job market will see a net decrease. And that's why the Canadian govt responded by creating new jobs in the mining and transport infrastructure sectors. And they are all up north. And the northern parts of Canada are quite inhospitable. And I don't foresee profit minded corps treating the workers particularly well. Will it turn into gulags ? Or have I watched too many movies ?

There is a possibility that the market will favor new startups and lots of small businesses,. AI can help the nimble smaller companies as well. Do you think it will turn out that way ? The AI web design businesses certainly want to paint that picture - that everyone wants to start their own biz. If those govt built hiiways stretch east to west then I could ship more B.C sokeye salmon to Toronto !

 

[Zero Knowledge]

It's already a bloodbath, programing is dead, SOC analyst is dead, support is dead, anything to do with tutoring is dead, education is going to be transformed, and many other industries are in the process of shedding workers and replacing them with A>I>. It's going to get very sketchy and who knows where we will end up in the future.

If I was a career adviser I would advise anyone wanting to do anything I.T except for security or A>I> to avoid the industry all together. I would advise students to do further studies in nursing, logistics, teaching, dental, pharmacy, social work, psychology or psychiatry, philosophy or criminology. Anything that requires human interaction and physical work is the go now, but I.T related area I would avoid which is now going to be consumed with A>I.

The question is what do we do with all the unemployed? Pay UBI is one idea but welfare has never worked and does not lift people out of poverty or create equality.

But I guess you can become a social media influencer selling content for weight loss drugs and free plastic surgery

 

[Sampei.Nihira]

The declining birth rate is also contributing significantly to the rise of AI.

Perhaps in the not-too-distant future, we will all be replaced by our avatars and humanoid robots.
The few humans who remain will be too old and infirm to leave their homes.

How sad.........

 

[lokamoka820]

Why would people want to have children in a world ruled by maniacs who want to make people suffer in the name of freedom? Maniacs who believe that they alone deserve to live, and that others should die? Maniacs who violate the international law that they themselves created to protect it, as they claim? Maniacs who want men to become women and vise verse? I think such a world deserves to be destroyed because people are too cowardly to demand their rights.

 

[TairikuOkami]

I think such a world deserves to be destroyed because people are too cowardly to demand their rights.

"No matter what kind of person you are, I implore you: Try. Try to make the world a better place. Look inside yourself and recognize that change starts with you. It starts with me. It starts with all of us." Quote from Zootopia released in 2016, exactly 500 years after Utopia (Perfect World) in 1516 by Thomas More. Coincidence? I do not think so.