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AI's 'Creepy' Crawlers Criticized by Linux Foundation's IT
AI's 'Creepy' Crawlers Criticized by Linux Foundation's IT Infrastructure Director
TL;DRAI scrapers consume massive server resources at the Linux Foundation, outpacing legitimate users.
Why it matters: Open-source infrastructure costs surge while AI companies extract value without contributing back.
The Linux Foundation's director of IT infrastructure says they now spend more CPU cycles "rendering commits for scrapers than we spend on all other kinds of legitimate access." At any one time, across 5 geo-distributed nodes, there are 14 CPU cores doing nothing but rendering…
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