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AI crawlers cause Wikimedia(The umbrella organization of Wikipedia and a dozen or so other crowdsourced knowledge projects) Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%. (diff.wikimedia.org)
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[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago

Rate limiting in itself requires resources that are not always available. For one thing you can only rate limit individuals you can identify so you need to keep data about past requests in memory and attach counters to them and even then that won't help if the requests come from IPs that are easily changed.

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