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Jonathan Corbet
The amount of LWN traffic that is just AI bots downloading the same stuff over and over again is staggering; it's increasingly hard to see any sort of human signal in there at all. Something is going to give here at some point...

https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024/07/ai-crawlers-abuse/
Read the Docs · AI crawlers need to be more respectfulWe talk a bit about the AI crawler abuse we are seeing at Read the Docs, and warn that this behavior is not sustainable.
Peter Brett

@corbet Have you considered making older parts of the LWN archive available only to subscribers?

Jul 26, 2024, 02:23 PM·Public·Megalodon
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Jonathan Corbet
@krans I think it would be a terrible mistake for LWN to do that. LWN is part of the history of the community; walling that off would damage both LWN and (I like to think, at least) the community badly.
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