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Comment by jsheard

2 months ago

If synthetic data is so much better then what are AI crawlers still DDOSing everyone for? Are they stupid?

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philipkglass  2 months ago

Mostly. I had the "AI bot tsunami" problem on my own personal site and blocked a bunch of bot user agents in robots.txt. Most of them were from companies I had never heard of before. The only big AI name I recognized was GPTBot from OpenAI.

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