alt Hacker NewsSo which is it? DDOS attack or "AI" scrapers?
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TurdF3rguson • yesterday at 9:49 PM
Scrapers because DDOS implies that it's malicious rather than accidental and there's no reason to think that.
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Y-bar • yesterday at 9:15 PM
A sufficiently stupid and egregious AI scraper is indistinguishable from a DDOS attack.
Edit: Fabian2k was ten seconds ahead. Damn!
Sufficiently aggressive and inconsiderate scraping is indistinguishable from a DDOS attack.