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Meta's AI training generates excessive traffic to Mastodon homepage

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Meta's AI training process has been observed to generate an unusually high volume of requests to a specific Mastodon instance's homepage. These requests, identified by the "meta-externalagent" user agent and originating from Meta's IP blocks, appear to be inefficient, with one instance reporting over 42,950 requests to the same page in under 24 hours. This suggests potential issues with Meta's AI training data collection or crawling methodology. AI

IMPACT Potential for inefficient AI training data collection to strain web infrastructure.

RANK_REASON User observation of AI training behavior, not a direct announcement from the AI lab.

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Meta's AI training generates excessive traffic to Mastodon homepage

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

    Had a sudden increase in requests on my site over the last 24 hours Every one of those new requests is to my homepage - nothing else. All carry user agents incl

    Had a sudden increase in requests on my site over the last 24 hours Every one of those new requests is to my homepage - nothing else. All carry user agents including "meta-externalagent" and originate from IPs in blocks assigned to # Meta Their docs say this UA is used for # AI t…

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