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How does this work? What prevents AI bots to just solve the proof-of-work and enter the site anyways? It doesn't take much compute to solve it if I can do it on my phone in a second.
Those bots make hundreds of requests a second. Having to load JS and perform PoW for 2 seconds does have an impact.
Adding some extra CPU compute or ASICs for solving puzzles will not slow down a bandwidth-constrained bot. Bandwidth is still the bottleneck and cost factor. With the current state of AI investments, I bet they will go to great lengths to scrape every little bit of the internet at whatever internet bandwidth they have available.
Uhh, yes it did? CPU time costs money too. What used to take milliseconds now takes a seconds WILL cost them money. And usually CPU time is the most expensive one too while bandwidth is cheap.