Ai scraping is an effective DDoS on the entire interent
Ai scraping is an effective DDoS on the entire interent
Excerpt from a message I just posted in a #diaspora team internal forum category. The context here is that I recently get pinged by slowness/load spikes on the diaspora* project web infrastructure (Discourse, Wiki, the project website, ...), and looking at the traffic logs makes me impressively angr...
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It's a constant cat and mouse atm. Every week or so, we get another flood of scraping bots, which force us to triangulate which fucking DC IP range we need to start blocking now. If they ever start using residential proxies, we're fucked.
I have a tiny neocities website which gets thousands of views a day, there is no way that anyone is viewing it often enough for that to be organic.
quickly, add some ad revenue :P
From ai vendors. Let them pay you for scraping you lol
at least OpenAI and probably others do currently use commercial residential proxying services, though reputedly only if you make it obvious youâre blocking their scrapers, presumably as an attempt on their end to limit operating costs
They have a botnet on residential devices?
the term of art is "residential proxy" and there's a ton of them
for example: it's the flipside of Bright's free VPN service - through Bright Data they sell people access proxied via some user's connection
And companies like honey that pay you (a pittance) to proxy people's requests to porn sites.
Oh never heard of that. I have blocked their scrapers via agents but I haven't felt residential proxy pain.
hereâs a mastodon post and linked blog post with some details on what currently sets it off
PS: Looks like that sync issue between our instances is resolved now?
Daym, I should set me up some iocane as well I think