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Open source devs are fighting AI crawlers with cleverness and vengeance

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Open source devs are fighting AI crawlers with cleverness and vengeance

AI web crawling bots are the cockroaches of the internet, many developers believe. FOSS devs are fighting back in ingenuous, humorous ways.

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Eiji

Eiji

Ah, that makes a lot of sense … At least now I know why chatbot responses are so bad. :joy:

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AstonJ

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Yeah I’ve heard so many horror stories. I think in part they do it on purpose, so the websites are taken down so that they can’t later sue them for copyright infringement..

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alvinkatojr

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That’s a nasty way of doing things. It used to be that: we live in a man’s world, now it’s like we live in an AI world, deal with it…

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