AI Scraping Is Out of Control - Server Admins Take Heed

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AI data scraping is out of control. They don't care who you are or what kind of data you might have, if they can see it they're going to take it. I've had to take measures to protect my own home server because I was getting hit over a million times a day by AI bots scraping data from my Kiwix mirror.

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/30/ai-arms-race-china-deepseek http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-trained-ai-pirated-books https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/25/24205943/anthropic-ai-web-crawler-claudebot-ifixit-scraping-training-data https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/31/trump-order-usda-websites-climate-crisis https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/dcd-pages-trump-public-health https://www.vice.com/en/article/ai-spits-out-exact-copies-of-training-images-real-people-logos-researchers-find/ https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/13/meta-to-push-on-with-plan-to-use-uk-facebook-and-instagram-posts-to-train-ai

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