You may now add me to the list of FOSS folks directly impacted by unethical AI scraping effectively performing Denial of Service attacks.
My wife informed me this morning that our billing system had been knocked offline.
The reason? #Amazon, #OpenAI, and similar bot scraping traffic blew up my access logs to the point of filling that server's entire drive. They're constantly scraping and re-scraping my FreeBSD wiki.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries/
Jim Salter
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