A MediaWiki instance hosted on Mastodon is experiencing severe performance issues due to a high volume of AI crawler traffic. The instance, managed by user @JabberFR, was already slow before the surge in activity. The issue has been attributed to crawlers from Anthropic, a prominent AI research company. AI
IMPACT AI crawlers are causing performance degradation for some web services, potentially impacting user experience and infrastructure costs.
RANK_REASON The issue describes a performance problem impacting a specific instance of a platform, rather than a widespread product release or major industry event.
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