2026-07-30 14:55 UTC
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@ambientspace@cloudisland.nz 2026-07-30 21:41
@sybren@fosstodon.org this makes me wonder about the 'hidden' resource costs of AI. I suspect that the total resource demand is much higher than anyone wants to acknowledge.
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@hazmeister@mastodon.social 2026-07-30 15:00
@sybren@fosstodon.org I’ve a feeling that they write these crawlers using their own products which is why they run round in circles 😒
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@TheRealPomax@mastodon.social 2026-07-30 15:16
@sybren@fosstodon.org I propose we write laws that say they can't crawl the internet; there's only one permitted crawler, the wayback machine, and everyone else has to pay them to get a copy of that data instead.
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@BartV@mastodon.social 2026-07-30 15:16
@sybren@fosstodon.org 👍what did you use to block it? cloudflare?
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@ShadowmakerSdR@mastodon.nl 2026-07-30 20:21
@sybren@fosstodon.org This is happening to the Fusion forum that I visit all the time. Hundreds of thousands of requests by bots, not users driving up hosting costs and reducing uptime because of the constant server load. And they don't store anything, they just keep on doing it over and over again. I think 70% of all AI Chatbot answers on Fusion question get their information from this forum. The bot gets paid, the forum gets laid.