The current phenomenon of large websites "going dark" in response to LLM scraping kind of reminds me of what happened with free-as-in-beer CI systems after people realized they could be co-opted to mine Bitcoin. Silicon valley hype cycles have significant negative externalities.
https://drewdevault.com/2021/04/26/Cryptocurrency-is-a-disaster.html
@wlach OTOH it merely exposes the fragility of the services and the same "ship now, fix later" mentality that precipitates those hype cycles.
@dpwiz Agreed, this type of thing exploits a weakness in the system that wasn't previously seen as being worth exploiting. I suppose one bright side is that CI abuse seems to be more or less be under control at this point. So perhaps it's possible to adapt.
