Den zweiten Tag* online - und die Bots fallen darüber her. Was für eine Pest!
#AIbots #Bots #traffic #website
*Edit: noch keine 24 h.
#AIbots
If you are interested in an easy and low-tech way to separate bots from humans in your logs without exposing any user data, you can do this with a little web server config and a single line of JavaScript.
https://michaelnordmeyer.com/a-simple-privacy-preserving-bot-detection
AI bots shook Reddit. Now, user verification is planned to keep it human. But can Reddit protect its vital anonymity, a core promise to users? #Reddit #AIBots #Privacy
AI bots infiltrated Reddit's ChangeMyView, sparking a crisis. Now Reddit mulls user verification to stay human, risking its cherished anonymity. Can they balance authenticity & privacy? #Reddit #AIBots #DigitalPrivacy
"When Reddit rebranded itself as “the heart of the internet” a couple of years ago, the slogan was meant to evoke the site’s organic character. In an age of social media dominated by algorithms, Reddit took pride in being curated by a community that expressed its feelings in the form of upvotes and downvotes—in other words, being shaped by actual people.
So earlier this week, when members of a popular subreddit learned that their community had been infiltrated by undercover researchers posting AI-written comments and passing them off as human thoughts, the Redditors were predictably incensed. They called the experiment “violating,” “shameful,” “infuriating,” and “very disturbing.” As the backlash intensified, the researchers went silent, refusing to reveal their identity or answer questions about their methodology. The university that employs them has announced that it’s investigating. Meanwhile, Reddit’s chief legal officer, Ben Lee, wrote that the company intends to “ensure that the researchers are held accountable for their misdeeds.”
Joining the chorus of disapproval were fellow internet researchers, who condemned what they saw as a plainly unethical experiment. Amy Bruckman, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology who has studied online communities for more than two decades, told me the Reddit fiasco is “the worst internet-research ethics violation I have ever seen, no contest.” What’s more, she and others worry that the uproar could undermine the work of scholars who are using more conventional methods to study a crucial problem: how AI influences the way humans think and relate to one another."
#AI #GenerativeAI #SocialMedia #Chatbots #AIBots #Reddit #MediaManipulation #Persuasion
AI Crawlers stealing your content? Time to fight back! 💪
LLMs and AI bots are scraping the web, stealing up your data, hogging bandwidth, and even crashing servers under aggressive loads.
Don’t let them freeload! The CrowdSec AI Crawlers Blocklist stops unwanted harvesting before it hurts your site’s performance or privacy.
Regain control over your digital assets: https://crowdsec.net/blog/protect-against-ai-crawlers
#AIcrawlers #blocklists #threatintelligence #cybersecurity #infosec #AIbots #dataprotection
Unauthorised AI Bots on Reddit Are Eroding Sociality
https://mssv.net/2025/04/27/unauthorised-ai-bots-on-r-changemyview-are-eroding-sociality/
#HackerNews #Unauthorised #AI #Bots #on #Reddit #Are #Eroding #Sociality #socialmedia #AIbots #Reddit #erodingcommunity #digitalethics
The requests from residential and even mobile IPs, which I have been noticing at least for a year, might be explained by sketchy SDKs embedded in apps to form a botnet of at least 15 million IPs. These SDKs are embedding voluntarily by their developers, because they get a percentage of the proceeds. The resulting networks are sometimes called a peer-to-business (P2B) service.
https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/04/Web-is-Broken-Botnet-Part-2/
Today on my blog, a bad bot requested the same URL 30 times in less than a second, all from different IPs from residential and mobile ISPs with faked browser user-agents. I understand if they would have requested 30 different URLs in the same time frame, but 30 times the same URL?
If I would be using a dynamic blog like #WordPress without proper caching, the blog could have been down. Thanks to a static site generator like #Jekyll or #Hugo, I’m just annoyed, but not impacted.
The wast majority of AI scraper traffic hitting the sites I maintain come from Cloudflare’s, Amazon’s, Microsoft’s, or Google’s networks.
They must make so much money on all of this given that they host so much of the Internet.
"American police departments near the United States-Mexico border are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for an unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence on “college protesters,” “radicalized” political activists, and suspected drug and human traffickers, according to internal documents, contracts, and communications 404 Media obtained via public records requests.
Massive Blue, the New York-based company that is selling police departments this technology, calls its product Overwatch, which it markets as an “AI-powered force multiplier for public safety” that “deploys lifelike virtual agents, which infiltrate and engage criminal networks across various channels.” According to a presentation obtained by 404 Media, Massive Blue is offering cops these virtual personas that can be deployed across the internet with the express purpose of interacting with suspects over text messages and social media.
Massive Blue lists “border security,” “school safety,” and stopping “human trafficking” among Overwatch’s use cases. The technology—which as of last summer had not led to any known arrests—demonstrates the types of social media monitoring and undercover tools private companies are pitching to police and border agents. Concerns about tools like Massive Blue have taken on new urgency considering that the Trump administration has revoked the visas of hundreds of students, many of whom have protested against Israel’s war in Gaza."
https://www.404media.co/this-college-protester-isnt-real-its-an-ai-powered-undercover-bot-for-cops/
#AI #AIBots #SocialMedia #Bots #MassiveBlue #USA #PoliceState #Surveillance
Erweitert um die Nutzung der robots.txt Datei.
Here's WTF happened last week:
1️⃣ More arts industry organisations come out with election asks.
#AusElection2025 #VoteForArt
2️⃣ Spotify’s Turn Up AUS campaign hopes to turn up the volume on Australian music.
#Spotify #Music
3️⃣ AI web scaping is costing WIkimedia and lots of other content creators money in increased bandwidth.
#AI #AIBots #Wikipedia #Wikimedia #WikimediaFoundation @wikipedia @wikimediafoundation
🚨 OpenAI Week is HERE! 🚨
OpenAI is preparing to launch GPT-4.1 nano, alongside o4-mini and o3. Could this be the open-source model Sam Altman hinted at?
A smaller, more efficient GPT-4 could make AI more accessible, sparking new innovations for developers and researchers. Can't wait to see how this unfolds!
#AI #OpenAI #GPT4 #GPT41 #GPT4Nano #o4mini #o3 #AICommunity #SamAltman #Bots #AIbots #MachineLearning
🤖 I bot AI stanno mettendo sotto assedio Wikimedia! Scopri cosa succede e come ci sta influenzando. #Wikimedia #AIBots #socialmedia #artificialintelligence #technology
🔗 https://aibay.it/notizie/il-boom-dei-bot-ia-traffico-wikimedia-su-del-50-2025-04-04
eine sache, die mir sehr am herzen liegt und bei der ich mich frage, warum das überhaupt noch ein thema sein muß.
At least openai is now trying to read robots.txt but still abusively hitting the server from multiple ip addresses. They also want you to do robots.txt setup specific to them. They also tried to bypass cloudflare.
52.159.249.97 - - [04/Apr/2025:19:41:53 +0200] "GET / HTTP/2.0" 444 0 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; ChatGPT-User/1.0; +https://openai.com/bot"
They do publish their ip ranges, we will see if they speak the truth.
Imagine: Text corporas, curated by #libraries, whether #OpenAccess or licensed, ready to use out of the #IDE of a #DataScientist in a secure environment. No need to download lots of data, no need to worry about #AIBots. Here it is:
https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/free-compute-to-data-with-ocean-nodes-vscode-extension-1f8385cb077c
We already delivered a Proof-Of-Concept for @CrossAsia and will continue...
This is a CPU graph of a web host that began having AI bots absolutely slam it starting at 4am UTC.
I blocked all Chrome user agents older than 120 at about 10:45 UTC.
These AI bots aren't using "nice" names like ChatGPT or AmazonBot. No, more like Chrome/116 or similar and they come from ALL OVER.
I am so tempted to put Iocaine or Nepenthes on the machine to generate Markov Chain garbage to poison the well, but I'd have to have Nginx map the older user agent string with regex. It probably could be done but this might piss off my employer. 😂
Enabled Cloudflare AI Labyrinth
Client Info
Server: https://mastodon.social
Version: 2025.04
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst