RE: LeoThread 2025-04-06 04:45

AI Bots and Open Source Projects

The recent surge in AI-powered scraping bots has led to a significant increase in bandwidth and hosting costs for open-source projects, with 97% of traffic being generated by these bots.

This has resulted in higher costs for project maintainers, who may have to spend time and resources dealing with the issue instead of developing their projects. The bots often ignore the robots.txt file, which is meant to prevent crawling, and can adapt to evade barriers set up to block them.

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