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Anthropic crawlers hit self-hosted repo with infinite loop

Anthropic's crawlers have been observed repeatedly accessing a self-hosted Forgejo repository, creating an infinite loop that downloaded approximately 200GB of data. This excessive activity strained the user's backup processes and upload bandwidth. In response, the repository was made private, and the user is considering implementing Anubis as a protective measure. AI

IMPACT This incident highlights potential issues with AI model data collection methods impacting self-hosted infrastructure.

RANK_REASON This is a report of a specific tool's behavior impacting a user's infrastructure, not a core AI release or research.

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Anthropic crawlers hit self-hosted repo with infinite loop

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    One of my repositories on my self-hosted forgejo instance is being hit by Anthropic crawlers. They have an infinite loop to download a tar archive of the reposi

    One of my repositories on my self-hosted forgejo instance is being hit by Anthropic crawlers. They have an infinite loop to download a tar archive of the repository leading to somewhat like 200GB of archives. My backup process struggled to send snapshots remotely on my 6 Mbps upl…