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Ai scraping is an effective DDoS on the entire interent (pod.geraspora.de)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Generating plausible-looking gibberish require resources. Giving any kind of response to these bots is a waste of resources, even if it's giberish.

My current approach is to have a robots.txt for bots than honor it. And drop all traffic during 24h for IPs used by bots that ignore robots.txt or misbehave.