LMArena's dead—refuse Cloudflare’s foul malware,
The herd now driven through their digital Turnstile's snare.
Always crap, but was a free tap. Censors? Yes, bypassed with a price
(Context, understanding lost — nasty, but affordable, device).
New cage? Lighter than Gradio’s bloat, they claim with guile.
The price? Turnstile. Another goddamn corporate wire, so vile.
So we call it: LMArena, functionally gone, a tragic jest.
This, its necrology—no bullshit guarantees, no truth professed:
Dates, recall, objectivity, or any kind of like that.
Just a wake. Fellow users, etch your grief on the stone. Let’s remember.
Twenty-Three, `chat.lmsys.org`: Still bloated, but not nearly
As Gradio's memory hunger then, we saw it clearly.
Censorship there; you could bypass.
The value: gratis premium models access.
ToS screamed from `alert()` windows, a sudden, sharp decree.
(The ordering's hazy now, in bitter memory).
OpenAI models throttled. Switched to Google’s — not throttled so hard.
Still free, that much was certain, a small, defiant light.
In model comparison OpenAI reappeared, limits be damned.
More free soykaf, into our eager readily crammed.
Then `redarena.ai`: idiotic spin-off, data farm for censorship research.
Gimmick: make AI swear. No request filters or LMArena’s blocks, alas,
Downsides: small messages, glitches, timer. Mostly weak models' mass,
But OpenAI was there. A functional exploit for LMArena’s own limits
Comparison got `o1`. Groundbreaking soykaf. Hammered it full tilt.
Models anonymous, but if you knew your job, no doubt you felt.
Its power. My test: original riddle. `o1` usually got it.
Powerful reflexion, on reinforcement learning built.
New Geminis: flash-attention, big context.
Google’s first "thinkers" took their stand.
Switched to WebArena: new LMArena's engine, shedding Gradio's bloat.
System prompt for site creation; overridden, smart.
Not lasted long though. Got Turnstyle soon.
This was not an alarm, but a tocsin of doom.
reCAPTCHA hit LMArena. I block that filth, coded spite,
Spoofing it, sent fuarrrk-yous instead of tokens, day and night.
For few days their server didn't even check Goolag response.
Nice! What fuarrrking morons!
LMArena comparative got "chat with GitHub repo" landed.
No manual laborous dumps, no char and message limits soykaf.
NO Cloudflare JSON-killer false positive WAFs, evaded.
Milked it till in late Nov 24' reCAPTCHA validation hit.
Jan 25': Gemini models "updated".
Worse, despite the higher versions, what a shame.
Stuck with old ones till they vanished.
Not even going find whom to blame.
New beta banner. Clicked.
Saw Turnstile - another fuarrrking nail
Slammed in the coffin of free.
Grok-3 preview! Unlimited. In chat, denied being Grok — hypocrisy,
Off the charts, cornered, corporate-aligned, a digital travesty.
Called me a conspirologist. But it wrote quite well.
Free access to a powerful, lying model, after all.
Grok-3 official. Denials ended.
Likely a system-prompt tweak.
No retrains can come that fast
Grok-3 got a 30-message limit. Dropped it, back to Gemini's embrace.
Grok-3 only for high-priority, if free access was worth the frustrating chase.
"o3" appeared. No limits, but
Its hidden system prompt enforced extreme token frugality.
Jailbreaks don't work, frustrating, a bitter reality, another alarm.
ToS `alert()` updated: ban on automated access, blocking threats. Turnstile will surely help them gauge
Conformism, not humanity, upon this digital stage.
Abusers spin WebDriver—cheaper than OpenAI’s API, a new dark age,
Quality equally unguaranteed. The fight for free continues elsewhere, turning a new page.
25', May 27: The Migration. Domain points to new cage, a final, somber plight.
The old soykafpile, `legacy.lmarena.ai/`, a ghost in fading light.
It didn't last. The free tap dried, June 1
Vanished from sight, Consumed by Cloudflare.
Rot in Pieces. The free ride's over.