You may now add me to the list of FOSS folks directly impacted by unethical AI scraping effectively performing Denial of Service attacks.

My wife informed me this morning that our billing system had been knocked offline.

The reason? #Amazon, #OpenAI, and similar bot scraping traffic blew up my access logs to the point of filling that server's entire drive. They're constantly scraping and re-scraping my FreeBSD wiki.

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/dev…

Open Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries

AI bots hungry for data are taking down FOSS sites by accident, but humans are fighting back.

^{Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)}

"Store Norske Leksikon hevder OpenAI har stjålet hele leksikonet deres

Serverloggene til Store Norske Leksikon (SNL) viser at roboter fra OpenAI har lastet ned hele leksikonet 30 millioner ganger."

"Ifølge Erik Bolstad er det ikke bare OpenAI, men også en rekke andre teknologiselskaper, som laster ned artikler fra Store Norske Leksikon."

khrono.no/store-norske-leksiko…
#ai #openai #chatgpt #copyright

Store Norske Leksikon hevder OpenAI har stjålet hele leksikonet deres

^{Joar Hystad (Khrono.no)}

#Penmanship #Authors #Writing #Legal #FediLaw #AI

👉Important for all authors, esp. if #US-based: how to protect your copyright against #AI firms👈

"*Class Action Lawsuits Cover All Writers Whose Books Were Used *

Legal action is already underway against #Meta, #OpenAI, #Microsoft, #Anthropic, and other AI companies for using pirated books.
You don’t need to be a named plaintiff to benefit or receive damages if you qualify as part of the class;... "

cc @alison

authorsguild.org/news/meta-lib…

Meta's Massive AI Training Book Heist: What Authors Need to Know  - The Authors Guild

 Today, The Atlantic published a search tool that allows authors to check if their works are in LibGen, an illegal pirate site AI companies copied for their AI systems. This is a similar tool to the one that journalist Alex […]

^{The Authors Guild}