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OpenAI scraper causes massive traffic spike on Mastodon forum

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OpenAI's web scraper accessed the Mastodon forum, resulting in a significant surge of approximately half a terabyte of traffic. In response, a user named Ellie plans to implement a bot-blocking mechanism, such as Anubis, to mitigate future load. AI

IMPACT Unintended consequences of AI data scraping tools can lead to significant infrastructure strain for online platforms.

RANK_REASON This is a report of a tool (OpenAI's scraper) causing an unintended negative impact on another service (Mastodon forum), leading to a planned mitigation.

Read on Mastodon — mastodon.social →

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OpenAI scraper causes massive traffic spike on Mastodon forum

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

    So OpenAIs scraper found our Forum and caused some considerable server load (About half a TB of traffic WTF), so @ellie will put some kind of bot blocking mecha

    So OpenAIs scraper found our Forum and caused some considerable server load (About half a TB of traffic WTF), so @ellie will put some kind of bot blocking mechanism like anubis in front of it soon. #AI #scrapers #openai

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