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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The ending of the article is hilarious but sad and true in some ways:
But DeVault also issued a public, heartfelt plea for a more direct fix: “Please stop legitimizing LLMs or AI image generators or GitHub Copilot or any of this garbage. I am begging you to stop using them, stop talking about them, stop making new ones, just stop.”
From Devault’s personal blog site on a related article:
If you personally work on developing LLMs et al, know this: I will never work with you again, and I will remember which side you picked when the bubble bursts.
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Ah, that makes a lot of sense … At least now I know why chatbot responses are so bad. 
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I recently blocked AmazonBot (and its IPs) on one of our servers because it was hammering it 
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Hahahahahaha 
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You got lucky @AstonJ. You ever read the story of the site that got hammered by scrapers from OpenAI? Terrible stuff.
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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..