alt Hacker NewsThe problem I have, is they hammer my site so hard they take it down.
The content is for everyone. They can have it. Just don't also take it away from everybody else.
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pmlnr • today at 4:47 PM
Been there recently. Rate limit on nginx and anti-syn flood on pf solved it.
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Unintentional denial-of-service attacks from AI scrapers are definitely a problem, I just don't know if "theft" is the right way to classify them. They shouldn't get lumped in with intellectual property concerns, which are a different matter. AI scrapers are a tragedy of the commons problem kind of like Kessler syndrome: a few bad actors can ruin low Earth orbit for everyone via space pollution, which is definitely a problem, but saying that they "stole" LEO from humanity doesn't feel like the right terminology. Maybe the problem with AI scrapers could be better described as "bandwidth pollution" or "network overfishing" or something.