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AI scrapers are straining Mastodon servers

Original: 🤖 Anche Mastodon sta pagando a caro prezzo la corsa all'AI. Negli ultimi mesi diverse istanze Mastodon hanno subito picc

Several Mastodon instances have reported abnormal spikes in storage use and traffic in recent months, caused by bots and crawlers scraping public pages to collect content, reportedly for training AI systems. Instance administrators are raising alarms about the growing costs and technical burden that the AI data rush is imposing on volunteer-run, decentralised social media infrastructure.

Why now: Admins of decentralised networks are increasingly vocal about AI crawlers overwhelming their servers and driving up hosting costs

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