Getting Error message on opening Cadtutor.

[BIGAL]

This has started to appear hit "Try gain" and works. Using Edge. Other Forums Bricscad, Acad are Ok.

 

[SLW210]

I've been getting those randomly as well at home on Firefox and work on Edge.

[VicoWang]

I often encounter 500 errors here as well. I've always thought it was a necessary test for the upgrade to version 5, so I refresh it several times, and it can be refreshed successfully.

[Steven P]

From another forum earlier - they have a 'too many requests' page appearing - a side effect of an anti- Al screening thing to stop the bots a little

[Paul Li]

usually after I click Try Again then it'll work..not sure why..

[Steven P]

Answer from another forum which is a bit more than my answer above - the errors are a kind of firewall to stop the Al bots scraping the websites, taking all the bandwidth, slowing things for the humans - something we'll have to live with for a while I think

[Dadgad]

Yeah, me too...sounds like the NEW and annoying "normal" .  

[BIGAL]

Something maybe Dave can look at is my Norton antivirus pops up now and then with a warning about "I.see.you" has been detected. Will attach an image next time.

[SLW210]

11 hours ago, BIGAL said:

Something maybe Dave can look at is my Norton antivirus pops up now and then with a warning about "I.see.you" has been detected. Will attach an image next time.

 

That sounds like a fake Norton Pop-Up, ISeeYou, used to be (is?) an older vulnerability for web cams, I guy was activating webcams without the activation light on and blackmailing women with photos, he was caught and arrested a while back. I'll look for the article.

 

Here is the Wiki

 

iSeeYou - Wikipedia

 

This looks to be a good while back.

[CADTutor]

Hello friends, I have noticed the same intermittent errors. As some have suggested, this seems to be to do with AI bot activity which floods available resources, making it difficult to serve pages to real users. I am hoping this will subside over time, once all models have gorged themselves on our content. Right now we have two choices. We can either add a Capture test that means you need to complete an action before getting access to the forum (this basically filters out the bots) or we just put up with random errors for now. Let me know what you think.

[VicoWang]

To be honest, the greatest value of CADTUTOR is its vast stock of knowledge and records, which are opened to search engines. I don't know if blocking AI would also block the legitimate crawling of search engines, just like the Cloudflare verification added to Theswamp, making it a ghost website (hidden from search engines, known to those who know but not searchable by those who don't, of course, this strategy should have reduced corresponding cost expenditures).

 

Perhaps a certain threshold should be set: for example, under the condition of ensuring that normal user access is not blocked, setting a limit on the total number of daily visits by AI or search engines combined, while allowing access for those with accounts.