DiscoverLife, an image repository, has experienced a surge in daily traffic attributed to bots scraping content for AI training. This has strained systems and caused user disruptions. While bots have historically been beneficial, the rise of generative AI has increased the number of malicious bots that scrape data without consent. Website owners, particularly of smaller ventures, are struggling to block these bots, which poses significant financial risks and could lead to the demise of these organizations if not addressed.
It's the wild west at the moment, the biggest issue is the sheer volume of requests [to access a website], which is causing strain on their systems. It costs money and causes disruption to genuine users.
These smaller ventures could go extinct if these sorts of issues are not dealt with.
The rise of generative AI has led to a deluge of bots, including many 'bad' ones that scrape without permission.
Much of the bot traffic comes from anonymized IP addresses, leading many website owners to suspect that these web-scrapers are gathering data to train AI tools.
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