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The AI bots that desperately need OSS for code training, are now slowly killing OSS by overloading every site.

The curl website is now at 77TB/month, or 8GB every five minutes.

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/dev

man sitting in sofa in a flooded living room, feets in water, writing on a laptop
Ars Technica · Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countriesBy Benj Edwards

@bagder Makes me want to share code on cds via the mail. Augh