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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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[–] YetiSkotch@ieji.de 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

@refalo @sudo If Proof of Work gets widely adopted I foresee a future where bot running data-centers can out-compute humans to visit sites, while old devices of users in poorer countries struggle to compute the required task for hours … Or is that fear misguided?

[–] sudo@programming.dev 1 points 6 hours ago

Admins will always turn down the bot management when it starts blocking end users. At that point you cough up the money for the extra bandwidth and investigate different solutions.