@froztbyte @osm_tech yeah i'm getting the same AI assholes

as is @RationalWiki (i'm the sysadmin trying to keep the site up in the face of the hammering - we can either lose Google search listing, or we can be literally unusable for humans)

as is @corbet at Linux Weekly News - OSM might be relevant to LWN, a free content project getting hammered by the AI bots

they botnet suburban Android boxes

covered it a bit previously on Pivot:

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/02/fighting-the-ai-scraper-bots-at-pivot-to-ai-and-rationalwiki/
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/07/the-ai-scraper-bots-are-hammering-pivot-to-ai-again-please-test/

@sjvn @osm_tech do contact sjvn!

@BalooUriza We use fail2ban to handle some of this with custom rules, but eventually fail2ban becomes a bottleneck after 100,000 IP addresses.

@floris
@osm_tech Hi, please get in touch, we've covered OSM many times before and would love to learn more: team a lagedernation org