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i know someone who ran their own server setup. they took it off the public-facing internet because the amount of bots it was getting even after Cloudflare protection was too much for a self-hosted server. and it wasn't even an indexed site.

Here is Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology’s donation page, if anyone wants to give them money to keep suing OpenAI until they learn to keep their pets in their own yard. www.every.org/lasst?requir...

Yeah, they had a really cagey hack that showed anyone coming from Google ads for meds but didn't show it if you went directly to the URL so of course I couldn't find it because I type the URL directly. 😑

Unless some regulation happens, I think you won't be able to really have a website anymore, and you'll have to pay Google to include your business info in their training models (or some variant of that). It's depressing as hell

As well as being responsible for paying restitution and damages.

I saw Spoonflower was getting hit pretty badly, too I'm wondering if AI companies will see this as a plus; less websites means they can consolidate users onto social media platforms

100% top-down Internet was always the goal.

Like there is no way this nonprofit could have paid for the number of hours I put into this just because I got stubborn and contrary! They are wrecking the most basic fundemental part of the internet I love: anyone can just make a little goofy website!

...that's relatively chilling.

Hopefully they have a decent hosting provider that'll help them sort it. Otherwise, yes the answer is they just die :(

yeah, when I finally got in there and saw what was happening I was agog. they had bots trying to crawl 200 random iterations of an infinite number of URLs in their event calendar EVERY SECOND. the cpu load was at 115% and it kept crashing. every IP was unique. none identified as bots. CLUSTERFUCK!