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FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies (thelibre.news)

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LLM scrapers are taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure, and it's getting worse.

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[–] hisao@ani.social 18 points 1 day ago

This is the most crazy read on subject in a while. Most articles just talk about hypothetical issues of tomorrow, while this one actually full of today's problems and even costs of those issues in numbers and hours of pointless extra work. Had no idea it's already this bad.