#foss-infrastructure on Hacker News

2 stories tagged foss-infrastructure, newest first.

Screenshot of arstechnica.com: Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries

Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries (arstechnica.com)

329 points by LinuxBender 1 year ago | 232 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that open source developers face overwhelming AI crawler traffic, leading some to block entire countries to keep FOSS sites online.

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Screenshot of thelibre.news: FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies

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

803 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 487 comments

LibreNews article by Niccolò Venerandi on how LLM scrapers from AI companies are overloading and taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure.

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#foss-infrastructure on Hacker News

Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries(arstechnica.com)

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

Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries (arstechnica.com)

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