AI companies' aggressive LLM scrapers are disrupting FOSS infrastructure, causing outages and resource strain. Notable incidents include SourceHut's downtimes, KDE GitLab overloads by AI crawlers, and GNOME's adoption of Anubis to combat the issue. Many projects are struggling to manage the influx of bot traffic, leading to heavy blocking measures that impact genuine users. The rise of AI-generated bug reports complicates developer workloads. The open-source community, often under-resourced, faces unique challenges against these automated threats.
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