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Mastodon's hosting costs skyrocket due to AI scraping

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Mastodon is experiencing a significant increase in its web-hosting costs, jumping from a typical $600-$800 per month to $3,500 per month. This surge is attributed to AI model-training bots repeatedly scraping the platform's text and images, despite requests to cease and despite misrepresenting their identity. The platform's administrator expressed frustration and a lack of immediate solutions, contemplating the removal of web hosting as a last resort. AI

IMPACT AI model training is driving up infrastructure costs for online platforms, potentially impacting their ability to operate.

RANK_REASON The item is an opinion piece from an administrator about the impact of AI on their platform's infrastructure costs.

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Mastodon's hosting costs skyrocket due to AI scraping

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · NewsHund ·

    "But why do I bring this up now? Because our web-hosting bill is normally between $600 and $800 per month. Except suddenly it's now $3,500 per month, entirely b

    "But why do I bring this up now? Because our web-hosting bill is normally between $600 and $800 per month. Except suddenly it's now $3,500 per month, entirely because of all of these piece-of-shit AI model-training robots incompetently scraping all of our text and images, repeate…

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