These Linux and Open Source Projects Have a AI Crawler Issue..

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Published on March 25, 2025 3:14:34 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0Szf1tL40I

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AI / LLM is causing massive issues for Open Source (FOSS) projects and Linux. It's starting to affect all sorts of projects even outside of Linux. The web / ai crawlers / scrapers are causing all sorts of issues for admins. What will happen to the web?

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OS News - https://www.osnews.com/story/141969/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/
Libre News - https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/
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LWN - https://hachyderm.io/@corbet@social.kernel.org/113868168255195996
Fedora - https://fosstodon.org/@earlwarren@mastodon.online/114199550208981828

00:00 - LLMs are Attacking Projects
02:00 - FOSS and Community Discussion
04:16 - Read The Docs (Case 1)
07:54 - GNOME (Case 2)
09:26 - SourceHut (Case 3)
11:42 - Anubis Blocking Scrapers
13:23 - LWN (Case 4)
14:17 - Fedora (Case 5)

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