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corbet

Jonathan Corbet

So I guess I'm famous now :)

https://www.heise.de/en/news/AI-bots-paralyze-Linux-news-site-and-others-10252162.html

To be clear, LWN has never "crashed" as a result of this onslaught. We'll not talk about what happened after I pushed up some code trying to address it...

Most seriously, though: I'm surprised that this situation is surprising to anybody at this point. This is a net-wide problem, it surely is not limited to free-software-oriented sites. But if the problem is starting to get wider attention, that is fine with me...
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pro@mu.zaitcev.nu

Account: Computers

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@corbet So, what's the downside to going login-only? Most social media and news sites are like that these days. Pure nostalgia for the wide-open Internet is not a good enough reason. We used to have http: at one point too, but we moved on. Do you reap anything from that openness?
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kobold@social.troll.academy

Kobold

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@corbet But only due to that marvellous old-school race bike on your profile picture ;)

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mboelen@mastodon.social

Michael Boelen

Reply to @pro@mu.zaitcev.nu

@pro
I became a subscriber again after reading a few open articles. If the whole website would have been locked, then chances are slim that I would have done that.
@corbet

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nein@social.cologne

Einfach Nein verified

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@corbet

Is there a tool to deliver different content to AI bots specifically?

I am thinking of glued pizza and that worms in penises stuff, or just plain AI hallucination.

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cesarb@fosstodon.org

cesarb

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@mboelen @pro @corbet That's probably a very common story. I also would never have subscribed to LWN if I hadn't been reading all the publicly-available articles on it for a long time, even before I had a credit card (fun fact: the very first thing I did when I finally decided to get a credit card, was to use it to subscribe to LWN).

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