ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AI operations are hurting open source projects
AI crawlers are overwhelming open source platforms, escalating costs, and forcing drastic measures like country-wide blocks.
Open source platforms are under siege from aggressive AI web crawlers, which in some cases are overwhelming infrastructure, disrupting services and escalating costs.
Some bots designed to scrape training data for AI models ignore instructions in website robot.txt files not to scrape site data. The overall effect can be similar to DOS (denial of service) attacks.