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lemmydividebyzero ( lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com )  to TechnologyEnglish · 4 months ago

Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis

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Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis

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lemmydividebyzero ( lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com )  to TechnologyEnglish · 4 months ago
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Bots are currently scraping the internet for LLM training data at unprecedented rates[1][2][3], driving up costs and destabilizing public-facing websites. I want to talk about how this has been particularly difficult for wikis, and has gotten much worse in the last few months.
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    I didnt see this mentioned- for all the old non-cashed stuff, would it help to throttle it by like 5-10 seconds per request? Maybe also serve a cached “loading” page during the wait.

    • RamenJunkie ( RamenJunkie@midwest.social ) 
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      4 months ago

      What we need is a system that detects scrapers, and feeds them an alternative poisoned data set.

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