Coates realized the flood of traffic was coming from a single IP address owned by OpenAI, severely disrupting his Game UI Database.
The race is on to collect as much information as possible before it runs out, or the rules change on what's acceptable.
Coates assumed it was some sort of petty DDoS attack, but system logs showed bots fueling AI models were responsible for the traffic.
For small website owners with limited resources, the costs of playing host to a swarm of hungry AI crawlers could become devastating.
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