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OpenAI straight up DoSed a site I manage for my in-laws a few months ago.

• muzani 1y ago
  What is it about? I'm curious what kinds of things people ask that floods sites.
  • average_r_user 1y ago
    I suppose that they just keep referring to the website in their chats, and probably they have selected the search function, so before every reply, the crawler hits the website
  • rco8786 1y ago
    The site is about a particular type of pipeline cleaning (think water/oil pipelines). I am certain that nobody was asking about this particular site or even the industry its in 15,000 times a minute 24 hours a day. It's much more likely that their crawler is just garbage and got stuck into some kind of loop requesting my domain.
    • dwd 1y ago
      It's common to see them get stuck in a loop on online stores trying every combination of product filter over and over. Even Googlebot has to be told to not crawl particular querystrings, but the AI crawlers are worse.
      • rco8786 1y ago
        Not an online store just a bog standard Wordpress site