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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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[โ€“] LostXOR@fedia.io 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Even so I think it would be totally reasonable for them to block web scrapers, as they provide better ways to download all their data.

[โ€“] FaceDeer@fedia.io 9 points 3 days ago

At the root of this comment chain is a proposal to have laws passed about this.

People can set up their web servers however they like. It's on them to do that, it's their web servers. I don't think there should be legislation about whether you're allowed to issue perfectly ordinary HTTP requests to a public server, let the server decide how to respond to them.