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internetarchive
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Nicole Hennig
@nic221@techhub.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
Text Shot: The unprecedented surge in aggressive crawler traffic, coinciding with the release of commercial generative AI models, has forced libraries to rapidly evolve our approach to network and application security. While the timing strongly suggests connections to AI training, we cannot definitively attribute these activities to specific organizations or purposes. Regardless of intent, the impact on library services has been substantial, requiring significant financial and human resources to maintain stable access for our human users. The libraries and archives community has developed a multi-layered defense strategy that has proven, to date, to be somewhat effective against even the most aggressive and evasive crawlers. We have continued to experience intermittent service disruptions related to this traffic, and some of our peers now require logins for catalog access and block access to increasingly broad sets of IP addresses, sometimes representing entire countries. Although…
Text Shot: The unprecedented surge in aggressive crawler traffic, coinciding with the release of commercial generative AI models, has forced libraries to rapidly evolve our approach to network and application security. While the timing strongly suggests connections to AI training, we cannot definitively attribute these activities to specific organizations or purposes. Regardless of intent, the impact on library services has been substantial, requiring significant financial and human resources to maintain stable access for our human users. The libraries and archives community has developed a multi-layered defense strategy that has proven, to date, to be somewhat effective against even the most aggressive and evasive crawlers. We have continued to experience intermittent service disruptions related to this traffic, and some of our peers now require logins for catalog access and block access to increasingly broad sets of IP addresses, sometimes representing entire countries. Although…
Text Shot: The unprecedented surge in aggressive crawler traffic, coinciding with the release of commercial generative AI models, has forced libraries to rapidly evolve our approach to network and application security. While the timing strongly suggests connections to AI training, we cannot definitively attribute these activities to specific organizations or purposes. Regardless of intent, the impact on library services has been substantial, requiring significant financial and human resources to maintain stable access for our human users. The libraries and archives community has developed a multi-layered defense strategy that has proven, to date, to be somewhat effective against even the most aggressive and evasive crawlers. We have continued to experience intermittent service disruptions related to this traffic, and some of our peers now require logins for catalog access and block access to increasingly broad sets of IP addresses, sometimes representing entire countries. Although…
Nicole Hennig
@nic221@techhub.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
Text Shot: The unprecedented surge in aggressive crawler traffic, coinciding with the release of commercial generative AI models, has forced libraries to rapidly evolve our approach to network and application security. While the timing strongly suggests connections to AI training, we cannot definitively attribute these activities to specific organizations or purposes. Regardless of intent, the impact on library services has been substantial, requiring significant financial and human resources to maintain stable access for our human users. The libraries and archives community has developed a multi-layered defense strategy that has proven, to date, to be somewhat effective against even the most aggressive and evasive crawlers. We have continued to experience intermittent service disruptions related to this traffic, and some of our peers now require logins for catalog access and block access to increasingly broad sets of IP addresses, sometimes representing entire countries. Although…
Text Shot: The unprecedented surge in aggressive crawler traffic, coinciding with the release of commercial generative AI models, has forced libraries to rapidly evolve our approach to network and application security. While the timing strongly suggests connections to AI training, we cannot definitively attribute these activities to specific organizations or purposes. Regardless of intent, the impact on library services has been substantial, requiring significant financial and human resources to maintain stable access for our human users. The libraries and archives community has developed a multi-layered defense strategy that has proven, to date, to be somewhat effective against even the most aggressive and evasive crawlers. We have continued to experience intermittent service disruptions related to this traffic, and some of our peers now require logins for catalog access and block access to increasingly broad sets of IP addresses, sometimes representing entire countries. Although…
Text Shot: The unprecedented surge in aggressive crawler traffic, coinciding with the release of commercial generative AI models, has forced libraries to rapidly evolve our approach to network and application security. While the timing strongly suggests connections to AI training, we cannot definitively attribute these activities to specific organizations or purposes. Regardless of intent, the impact on library services has been substantial, requiring significant financial and human resources to maintain stable access for our human users. The libraries and archives community has developed a multi-layered defense strategy that has proven, to date, to be somewhat effective against even the most aggressive and evasive crawlers. We have continued to experience intermittent service disruptions related to this traffic, and some of our peers now require logins for catalog access and block access to increasingly broad sets of IP addresses, sometimes representing entire countries. Although…
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Matthew Rimmer
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petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago
Bodling
@Bodling@deacon.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago
Matthew Rimmer
@drrimmer@aus.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago
petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago
Robin DeRosa
@actualham@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
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