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Open Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2025
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Yep same thing. I have some small servers and was getting hammered by openai ip controlled ai crawlers not respecting robots.txt. had to block all their IP addresses and create an AI black hole in order to stop them ddos ing my tiny site(s).
Man, this current age of AI really sucks.
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You licensed your comment? You just saw first hand that AI crawlers don't care about legal barriers.
I suppose the goal isa kind of poisoning the well, in case at any time in the future it becomes enforceable somehow
Some info about that ...
https://lemmy.world/post/26711096/15639879
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