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

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[–] 4am@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How much you wanna bet that at least part of this traffic is Microsoft just using other companies infrastructure to mask the fact that it’s them

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

I doubt it since Microsoft is big enough to be a little more responsible.

What you should be worried about is the fresh college graduates with 200k of venture capital money.