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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: 0.214s | 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. rchaud ◴[01 Jan 25 15:36 UTC] No.42566624[source]▶
Every one of these companies is sparing no expense to tilt the justice system in their favour. "Get a lawyer" is often said here, but it's advice that's most easily doable by those that have them on retainer, as well as an army of lobbyists on Capitol Hill working to make exceptions for precisely this kind of unauthorized access .