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FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies (thelibre.news)
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[โ€“] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 81 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In a blogpost called, "AI crawlers need to be more respectful", they claim that blocking all AI crawlers immediately decreased their traffic by 75%, going from 800GB/day to 200GB/day. This made the project save up around $1500 a month.

"AI" companies are a plague on humanity. From now on, I'm mentally designating them as terrorists.

[โ€“] Gonzako@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

that's the pure definition of a parasite