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AI companies cause most of traffic on forums

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770 points ta988 | 1 comments | 30 Dec 24 14:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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PaulRobinson ◴[30 Dec 24 18:18 UTC] No.42551970[source]▶
If they're not respecting robots.txt, and they're causing degradation in service, it's unauthorised access, and therefore arguably criminal behaviour in multiple jurisdictions.

Honestly, call your local cyber-interested law enforcement. NCSC in UK, maybe FBI in US? Genuinely, they'll not like this. It's bad enough that we have DDoS from actual bad actors going on, we don't need this as well.

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1. oehpr ◴[30 Dec 24 20:04 UTC] No.42552883[source]▶
It's honestly depressing.

Any normal human would be sued into complete oblivion over this. But everyone knows that these laws arn't meant to be used against companies like this. Only us. Only ever us.