Amongst the many reasons for loathing LLM / graphics plagiarism models are that their makers are doing a DDOS against the web.
I thought I was being quite good at blocking bots - OpenAI's was obsessed with one page on a server, visiting it every few seconds, so that was blocked a while ago - but adding a few more "AI" bot-specific rules to fail2ban a week ago has resulted in traffic to a forum site halving.
I changed default search engine from Google some months ago, and I have no regrets at all about doing so.
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Date: 2025-05-22 11:32 am (UTC)Amongst the many reasons for loathing LLM / graphics plagiarism models are that their makers are doing a DDOS against the web.
I thought I was being quite good at blocking bots - OpenAI's was obsessed with one page on a server, visiting it every few seconds, so that was blocked a while ago - but adding a few more "AI" bot-specific rules to fail2ban a week ago has resulted in traffic to a forum site halving.
I changed default search engine from Google some months ago, and I have no regrets at all about doing so.