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0 pointsLoganDark2y ago0 comments

But they can stress your servers with tons of requests. The point of requiring registration is usually to prevent DoS, not to prevent the models from being used for certain purposes.

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aortega2y ago

I can handle that with automatic throttling, unless you want to spend a lot of resources doing a malicious attack.

LoganDarkOP2y ago

> unless you want to spend a lot of resources doing a malicious attack

I don't want to perform an attack at all. I just think you probably underestimate the resources that any random darknet hacker possesses.

aortega2y ago

You can easily limit the damage with a Captcha or similar. Anyway, it survived being in the from page of Hacker News for a couple hours, so I think it's fine.

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0 pointsLoganDark2y ago0 comments

But they can stress your servers with tons of requests. The point of requiring registration is usually to prevent DoS, not to prevent the models from being used for certain purposes.

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aortega2y ago

I can handle that with automatic throttling, unless you want to spend a lot of resources doing a malicious attack.

LoganDarkOP2y ago

> unless you want to spend a lot of resources doing a malicious attack

I don't want to perform an attack at all. I just think you probably underestimate the resources that any random darknet hacker possesses.

aortega2y ago

You can easily limit the damage with a Captcha or similar. Anyway, it survived being in the from page of Hacker News for a couple hours, so I think it's fine.

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