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Mastodon CPU strained by AI scrapers, consuming 14 cores

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Mastodon is experiencing significant strain on its CPU resources due to excessive scraping, particularly from AI models. The platform dedicates more processing power to rendering commits for these scrapers than for all other legitimate access methods combined, including git clones. This intensive scraping is consuming 14 CPU cores across five distributed nodes solely for rendering git commits as HTML. AI

IMPACT Excessive AI scraping is straining Mastodon's infrastructure, diverting significant CPU resources from legitimate user access and operations.

RANK_REASON The item discusses infrastructure strain on a social media platform due to AI-related scraping, which falls under the 'tool' category as it relates to the operational impact of AI on existing services.

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Mastodon CPU strained by AI scrapers, consuming 14 cores

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COVERAGE [1]

  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    > “[…] we spend more CPU cycles rendering commits for scrapers than we spend on all other kinds of legitimate access, including git clones. At any one time, acr

    > “[…] we spend more CPU cycles rendering commits for scrapers than we spend on all other kinds of legitimate access, including git clones. At any one time, across 5 geo-distributed nodes, there are 14 CPU cores doing nothing but rendering git commits as html.” https:// people.ke…

    LINKS people.kernel.org/…/creepy-crawlies people.kernel.org/monsieuricon

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