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AI bots overwhelm web crawling infrastructure, breaking established systems

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The ability to crawl the World-Wide Web and maintain an updated copy was considered a solved problem, involving established techniques like workers, caches, and queues. However, the rise of AI bot makers has disrupted this, leading to inefficient and repetitive crawling that overwhelms origin websites, causing them to go offline or block access. AI

IMPACT AI bot behavior is straining web infrastructure, potentially impacting content accessibility and website stability.

RANK_REASON The item is a commentary on the impact of AI bots on web infrastructure.

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AI bots overwhelm web crawling infrastructure, breaking established systems

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

    Being able to crawl the entire World-Wide Web and keep an up to date copy was a solved problem. Workers, caches, queues, backoff. It was understood. And then th

    Being able to crawl the entire World-Wide Web and keep an up to date copy was a solved problem. Workers, caches, queues, backoff. It was understood. And then the fucking # AI bot makers have made a steaming pile of poo that repeatedly demands the same content -- unchanged -- agai…

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