from throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to tech@programming.dev on 18 Aug 18:02
https://lemmy.nz/post/27018051
Codeberg, a Berlin-based code hosting community, is struggling to cope with a deluge of AI bots that can now bypass previously effective defenses.
In a series of posts to the Mastodon social network on Friday, Codeberg volunteer staff said AI crawlers are no longer being kept at bay by Anubis, an AI bot tarpit.
“It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges,” the Codeberg account said. “Anubis is a tool hosted on our infrastructure that requires browsers to do some heavy computation before accessing Codeberg again. It really saved us tons of nerves over the past months, because it saved us from manually maintaining blocklists to having a working detection for ‘real browsers’ and ‘AI crawlers.’”
The AI bot traffic has functioned as a denial of service attack, resulting in what Codeberg staff describe as “a period of extreme slowness today.”
Codeberg says that some of the bots appear to be running on networks controlled by China-based telecom biz Huawei.
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