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DDoS and AI are mostly unrelated. Sure, AI companies are running low-quality scrapers, but they don't cause nearly as much traffic as a DDoS. They might cause a
by immibis 1y ago
DDoS and AI are mostly unrelated. Sure, AI companies are running low-quality scrapers, but they don't cause nearly as much traffic as a DDoS. They might cause as much CPU load as a DDoS, which is an application-level problem.
- esseph 1y agohttps://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries/ https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawlers-domi... They are creating a network and application load that in effect, is a DDoS. Tens or hundreds of thousands of hosts hitting the same domain at once.
- immibis 1y agoThat's a bug in Gitea. I suffered the same bug and worked around it in Gitea. Non-malicious traffic can also break a Gitea server.
- esseph 1y agoAlright, let me go get a dozen posts on the internet by network and system engineers working at the biggest companies at the world to tell you the same thing that you apparently haven't heard yet - they're all running into the same thing. We have about 400 domains at $dayjob and a decent sized network. All these domains, even silly ones with a handful of tabs and no dynamic content, are getting absolutely brutalized with traffic non-stop. Geoblocking did not help. So much of the "AI scraping" is coming from compromised customer internet connections. Compromised CPE equipment, desktops, phones, etc. It is a fucking nightmare.
- immibis 1y agoWhat is the evidence that has anything to do with AI? Seems to be very circumstantial at best: we're getting AI scrapers, and at the same time DDoS scrapers, so the DDoS scrapers must also be AI.