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cm0002@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

Open Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries

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Open Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries

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cm0002@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago
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Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries
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AI bots hungry for data are taking down FOSS sites by accident, but humans are fighting back.
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    You licensed your comment? You just saw first hand that AI crawlers don’t care about legal barriers.

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      I suppose the goal isa kind of poisoning the well, in case at any time in the future it becomes enforceable somehow

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      Some info about that …

      https://lemmy.world/post/26711096/15639879

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