AI companies are scraping websites to steal data so often they cost those sites & become in effect DDoS attacks

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4. Tweet about this from artist Reid Southen:

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Reid Southen
@Rahll

This was 100% AI bot scraping, this is becoming an unbelievably common occurrence. Not only are these companies stealing our work, which costs us, but they're driving up everyone's server bills as well. We're literally paying for them to take our work. This needs to be illegal.

rileyb3d
@rileyb3d
I had to shut down http://rileyb3d.com because my AWS monthly budget was reached in like an hour. I don’t know who, but it’s not general/normal traffic.

I wish I was more knowledgeable at tracking and blocking this stuff. I’m looking for a secure way to get it back.