this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2025
162 points (97.6% liked)

Fuck AI

3026 readers
876 users here now

"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"

A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

It's impossible, i got this instance to just see lemmy from my own instance, but no, it was slow as hell the whole week, i got new pods, put postgres on a different pod, pictrs on another, etc.

But it was slow as hell. I didn't know what it was until a few hours before now. 500 GETs in a MINUTE by ClaudeBot and GPTBot, wth is this? why? I blocked the user agents, etc, using a blocking extension on NGINX and now it works.

WHY? So google can say that you should eat glass?

Life is now hell, if before at least someone could upload a website, now even that is painfull.

Sorry for the rant.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] brandon@piefed.social 33 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

They already do. ("They" meaning AI generally, I don't know about Claude or ChatGPT's bots specifically). There are a number of tools server admins can use to help deal with this.

See also:

[–] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 hours ago

https://zadzmo.org/ is dead already and arstechnica is writing about them so...

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 12 points 16 hours ago

these solutions have the side effect of making the bots stay on your site longer and generate more traffic. it's not for everyone.