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Anyone can run a blog/website and be subject to AI bot crawlers using terabytes of your bandwidth for no reason, yeah.

• ahofmann 7mo ago
  Bandwidth is only expensive in the US, somehow. Here in Germany I didn't bother about bots and their additional traffic since 1998 (there are other annoying things about bots though).
• idop 7mo ago
  More than that, it's practically impossible to find good specialized, human-written websites. Search engines don't find them, all results are AI garbage. With no real ability to be discovered, there's no incentive to maintain such websites too, and so the cycle of slop continues.
  • dwedge 7mo ago
    Kagi small Web, though their rss only seems to show 5 updates a day across thousands of sites. Also search for indieweb
• dwedge 7mo ago
  If this encourages those people to stop sending hundreds of megabytes of crap per page load of their text content, it might be a good thing