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NASA ADS implements CAPTCHAs amid concerns over AI data scraping

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The NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) has reportedly increased its human verification checks, prompting user frustration. One user speculates this is due to AI models excessively scraping the repository for data, leading to CAPTCHA challenges involving image recognition tasks like identifying hats and mugs. This has caused inconvenience for astronomers and researchers accessing scientific papers. AI

IMPACT Potential for AI models to increase demand on academic data repositories, leading to stricter access controls.

RANK_REASON User expresses frustration and speculation about a change in a service's verification process, without concrete evidence of a new release or policy.

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NASA ADS implements CAPTCHAs amid concerns over AI data scraping

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  1. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Has anyone in # astronomy noticed an increased craziness by NASA ADS obsessively asking users to prove they are human? So what you want is a paper from 2002 and

    Has anyone in # astronomy noticed an increased craziness by NASA ADS obsessively asking users to prove they are human? So what you want is a paper from 2002 and instead you have to find all hats and mugs in pictures?? Wtf. Little doubt that this has to do with # AI excessively ac…

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