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2025-W12 reading notes

AI web scrapers causing headaches

Source: FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies

Turns out “AI” is as irresponsible as it is opaque. Bots ordered by “AI” companies to scrape the web cause a lot of trouble for maintainers of infrastructure of projects like KDE or GNOME, because they are retrieving data from whole websites and web applications ignoring robots.txt.

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