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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

@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?