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The AI bots that desperately need OSS for code training, are now slowly killing OSS by overloading every site.

The curl website is now at 77TB/month, or 8GB every five minutes.

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/dev

Ars Technica · Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countriesBy Benj Edwards
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@bagder ive had people tell me it's the projects fault for not using github/gitlab for their infra and centralizing it all, like that's a reasonable thing to do in 100% of cases >.>

@pearl @bagder we should do exactly the opposite, putting all our keys in one company's hand is probably the worst idea in the world

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@SRAZKVT @pearl it also doesn't help. curl for example already hosts its git repositories on GitHub, but we still have a website that gets bogged down by the bots

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