[kijin]

AI scrapers are parasites.

I don't care whether you're OpenAI, Amazon, Meta, or some unknown startup. As soon as you generate a noticeable load on any of the servers I keep my eyes on, you'll get a blank 403 from all of the servers, permanently.

I might allow a few select bots once there is clear evidence that they help bring revenue-generating visitors, like a major search engine does. Until then, if you want training data for your LLM, you're going to buy it with your own money, not my AWS bill.

[kccqzy]

The AI scrapers are failing to discover something old-style search engines have been doing for decades: respecting a host and not giving them too much load. I'd say you did a good job banning those that generate noticeable load.

[h8hawk]

> AI scrapers are parasites.

I've been making crawlers for a living! Thanks for informing me that I'm a parasite.