Yes, I also strongly suspect that this is only going to move more parts of scrapers onto consumer devices. The egress proxies are already there, why not use a little bit of the compute as well?

Or something that shadier websites could calculate ahead of time in your browser, then spend on your behalf.

I feel like Anubis is ironically speedrunning a lot of discoveries the crypto folks have already made several years ago...

Unlike an actual Bloom filter (which does not return false negatives), the cheaper model is still trusted to correctly recognize synonyms, equivalent functional constructions etc.

One is strictly a performance optimization, the other is a speed/quality tradeoff. It might well be a very good one, but it’s a tradeoff nevertheless. The framing is misleading.

That's a Claude.

What is?

Is gold really sufficiently fungible to enable daily bidirectional sizable flows across the Atlantic, but not fungible enough to allow somebody to net these flows out and save at least one way of the airfare?

Yes. Gold is fungible only within the same custodian.

Many people buy (normally small) gold bars only to discover that they can't sell them back by the same price.

That is the spread which the gold dealers have to make a profit. But bullion is bullion anywhere you turn and no matter to who you sell. No gold dealer will turn down investment grade gold.

Coordination cost maybe. If you're transferring A -> B and C <- D, but A and C or B and D don't know each other or even dislike each other, it's going to be hard to even get them to talk about the fungibility of the actual bars. And I bet airfare is the cheapest part after all the security and paychecks of people arranging the transaction.

It's not a great analogy, since Bloom filters are guaranteed to not have any false negatives, only false positives.

That property would be very useful here, but I don't see how it would be achievable using LLMs.

still a great analogy even if not techincally equivalent

"a filter" is an even better analogy because it is also technically correct

thats not a analogy, its just a description

I wish I could say this explains a lot about the state of Spotify's apps, but they have been that way since long before AI.

Works for me on Firefox.

Why blockchain? Any old public key signature scheme would do for that (and conversely, a blockchain doesn't solve the sockpuppet problem either).

“Git” again earning its name.

It's a recurring theme in Stephenson's books. "Fall" had a similar take on the same idea. It's one of his most impressive theories/predictions to me.

Are they solving captchas for those? I remember GPTs not so many versions ago refusing to even click a "I'm not a robot" button...

Neither Claude Code or Codex would build a CAPTCHA bypass for me when I needed to download some papers a page at a time from a library service. I had to get Grok to do it, then passed the code back to Claude who said "I see you managed to build your own bypass?"

Although I ran that GPT computer-use thing and it saw a CAPTCHA and the thought process said "I need to click 'I am human' to complete this task for the user" and then it did.

At least in one of these cases the models were being tested without the normal safeguards you would see as a regular user.

I spotted Claude doing it when accessing PubMed.

Both GPT-5.6 and Opus 4.8+ are able to solve them on the fly. I was surprised too first I saw it.