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LLM training bots are a plague (pod.geraspora.de)

submitted 1 month ago by mapto@feddit.bg to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Evidence for the DDoS attack that bigtech LLM scrapers actually are.

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm aware of the construction of a CIDR prefix, I meant what are you using to categorise IPs from requests to look up mask size? whois? using published NIC/RIR data? what's in BGP/routedumps? other?

[–] hecko@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago

late but i believe they mean they check for every possible range, e.g. if it's only 1.2.3.5 making noise it'll get banned as a /32 but if 1.2.3.6 is too it might justify a /30