Ur Ya'ar<p>This is truely alarming.</p><p>TL;DR</p><p>1. <a href="https://tooot.im/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> crawlers are essentially DDoSing the web, in particular open source projects like <a href="https://tooot.im/tags/KDE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KDE</span></a> <a href="https://tooot.im/tags/Gnome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gnome</span></a> <a href="https://tooot.im/tags/fedora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fedora</span></a> and <a href="https://tooot.im/tags/inkscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inkscape</span></a>, causing shutdowns. The not only ignore the robots.txt files - they actively circumvent defense attempts by changing IPs, spoofing their identity etc.</p><p>2. An emerging phenomena of <a href="https://tooot.im/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> generated/hallucinated bug reports, waisting maintainers' time and resources.</p><p><a href="https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thelibre.news/foss-infrastruct</span><span class="invisible">ure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tooot.im/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href="https://tooot.im/tags/generativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>generativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tooot.im/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cybersecurity</span></a></p>