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AI bots strain Blender's infrastructure, prompting crawler blocks

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AI bots are excessively crawling Blender's infrastructure, leading to significant CPU usage and impacting development. Blocking these AI crawlers has been implemented as a solution. The article suggests that AI users could achieve faster results by directly cloning the repository instead of relying on continuous crawling. AI

IMPACT Excessive AI bot activity can strain infrastructure, necessitating mitigation strategies that may impact legitimate users or development.

RANK_REASON The item discusses the impact of AI crawlers on a specific software's infrastructure and the implemented mitigation, which falls under tooling and operational impact rather than a core AI release or research.

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AI bots strain Blender's infrastructure, prompting crawler blocks

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    The effect of blocking AI crawlers on Blender's infrastructure. This is the CPU usage graph. So many AI bots are crawling Blender's infra all the time. Just do

    The effect of blocking AI crawlers on Blender's infrastructure. This is the CPU usage graph. So many AI bots are crawling Blender's infra all the time. Just do a `git clone` and investigate local files. It's way faster (also for the AI users themselves) and doesn't block actual B…

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