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Bun bot traffic from Google Cloud takes down website, user decries AI hype

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A user on Mastodon reported observing an unusual amount of traffic originating from "Bun/1.3.14" on 10 unique IP addresses within Google Cloud. This traffic, totaling 4,400 requests in 90 seconds, overwhelmed and took down a PHP-based website. The website owner had previously been advised not to block AI bots due to a belief in "AI SEO," a sentiment the reporting user strongly disagrees with, anticipating a collapse of the current AI hype. AI

RANK_REASON User complaint about AI bot traffic and hype, not a verifiable event or release.

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Bun bot traffic from Google Cloud takes down website, user decries AI hype

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User complaint about AI bot traffic and hype, not a verifiable event or release.
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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    At $day_job we just observed some user agent called "Bun/1.3.14" come from 10 unique IPs in Google Cloud hit one of our sites with 4.4k requests in 90 seconds.

    At $day_job we just observed some user agent called "Bun/1.3.14" come from 10 unique IPs in Google Cloud hit one of our sites with 4.4k requests in 90 seconds. It took down the site (which is PHP-based) The client of this site told us not to block AI bots because they seemed to h…

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