LLM crawlers continue to DDoS SourceHut | sr.ht status
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SourceHut continues to face disruptions due to aggressive LLM crawlers. We are continuously working to deploy mitigations. We have deployed a number of mitigations which are keeping the problem contained for now. However, some of our mitigations may impact end-users. In particular, we have deployed Nepenthes to certain routes which are associated with large volumes of LLM-related traffic. You may encounter certain pages which are not usable as a result, especially if you are not logged in.

SourceHut continues to face disruptions due to aggressive LLM crawlers. We are continuously working to deploy mitigations. We have deployed a number of mitigations which are keeping the problem contained for now. However, some of our mitigations may impact end-users.

  • Roguelazer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    The companies that run these residential proxy networks are sketchy as shit and in a better world would be criminally prosecuted. They’re tricking random low-information users into installing VPNs and other software with backdoors that turn them into a veritable botnet.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I wonder how much of the load problems I observe with lemmy.world are due to AI crawlers.

    • mesa@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      I had the same issue. OpenAI was just slamming my tiny little server, ignoring the robots.txt. I had to install a LLM black hole and put a very basic password protection around my git server frontend, since it kept getting slammed by the crawler.

      As much as I dont like google, I did see them come in, look at the robot.txt and no other calls for a week. Thats how it should work.