#indieweb 2025-07-08
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# kitn hi
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# [denschub] Hi there! I'm currently in contact with a journalist who is exploring working on an article about the damage LLM crawlers do (it's a large, well-known, reputable outlet). I offered to help them use my contacts to collect a few more contacts and points of data. So, if you run a thing that was negatively affected by LLM crawlers going ham on your web properties, and you have a public blog post or anything about that - or you'd be willing to talk
# [denschub] to a journalist, please let me know. Note that this is very early, and there's no guarantee this will turn into an actual article yet.
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[artlung] [denschub] I’ve had a little correspondence with Brian Geiger about this https://cdnc.ucr.edu I don’t think the newspaper archives issues have been documented. I think most of us have encountered at least slowdowns if not downtime as bots crawl aggressively.
# [denschub] well yeah, I have been affected, too. I believe that, but i'm mainly looking for links to blog posts from people telling that and how they were affected :)
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# [artlung] https://indieweb.org/large_language_model wiki page from the community has a lot of adjacent commentary
# [denschub] sweet, thank you.
# [denschub] I threw them all the links, and specifically also recommended to join themselves here and ask around if they wanna talk to more people :)
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# perryflynn not sure if it was topic here: cloudflare blocks AI traffic by default and offers a pay per request model for content creators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If36mqCOaUc
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