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Is there any counter AI bots in the fediverse
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If any of those end up interacting with me, or I otherwise see them on my timeline, they'll get treated appropriately: reported, blocked, or in extreme cases, served garbage interactions to. Serving garbage to 500+ bots is laughably easy. Every day I have over 5 million requests from various AI scrapers, from thousands of unique IP addresses, and I serve them garbage. It doesn't make a blip on my tiny VPS: in just the past 24 hours, I served 5.2M requests from AI scrapers, from ~2100 unique IP addresses, using 60Mb memory and a mere 2.5 hours of CPU time. I can do that on a potato.
But first: they have to interact with me. As I am on a single-user instance, chances are, by the time any bot would get to try and spam me, a bigger server already had them reported and blocked (and I periodically review blocks from larger instances I trust, so there's a good chance I'd block most bots before they have a chance of interacting with me).
This is not a fight bots can win.
I'm i can understand blocking 500 bots you think are garbage. I guess you can deal with the traffic of bots but not so much their content