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Comment by Jeremy1026

1 day ago

I sysadmin my kids' PTA website. OpenAI was scraping it recently. I saw it looking at the event calendar, request after request to random days. I saw years 1000 through 3000 scroll by. I changed the response to their user agent to an access denied, but it still took about 4 hours for them to stop.

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tonyedgecombe  20 hours ago

I wonder who wrote a crawler like that. Oh wait ...

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