The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has been actively combating web crawlers, including those used for AI model training data scraping, for approximately two years. Recently, a botnet comprising about five million IP addresses targeted the FSF's systems. The FSF's sysadmins have implemented measures to block these botnets and protect their infrastructure. AI
IMPACT Mitigation strategies against large-scale botnets could inform broader AI infrastructure security practices.
RANK_REASON This is a news item about infrastructure defense and botnet mitigation, not a core AI release or research.
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