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by jerpint 488 days ago
The other day I tried an open source deep research implementation, and a ton of links returned 403s because I was using an agent. But it is for legitimate purposes. I think we need better ways of identifying legitimate agents working on my behalf vs spam bots
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TBH if we want that to be a thing, we're gonna need to figure out how to pay server operators to cope with the additional load that AI agents can and will put on servers.
Was it running locally and using your IP to access the content?