▲ 167 ▼ Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis (weirdgloop.org) submitted 3 months ago by Itwasntme223@discuss.online to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world 41 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 months ago (1 child) Run labyrinths and feed them bullshit permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago That would be great if they could handle the traffic. For a lot of smaller sites, the AI scrapers are effectively a DDOS. It’s pushing these folks into the arms of Cloudflare. I think it’s one of the worst aspects of the AI bubble. I’m worried about Cloudflare’s outsized market power. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago That would be great if they could handle the traffic. For a lot of smaller sites, the AI scrapers are effectively a DDOS. It’s pushing these folks into the arms of Cloudflare. I think it’s one of the worst aspects of the AI bubble. I’m worried about Cloudflare’s outsized market power. permalink fedilink source parent
