The Web attacked by AI
The Web I grew up with and that grew up with me was already slowly fading. The Web of many people and organizations having their own small website. Capitalism and convenience lead to a concentration onto a small number of platforms and apps, but mostly these platforms let the rest be. People and small organizations and groups could still have their little website.
But the ongoing indiscriminate onslaught of AI bots on everything with an URL is just actively killing the web and its open nature. Websites, which were meant for the few human visitors, get crawled at rapid speed, open REST APIs are being overrun, the few SPARQL points out there get slaughtered by queries, causing downtimes, cost, and what not, actively killing those parts of the Web which have historically just been happy to be there, with little maintenance, across the years.
But now, if you don't pay protection money to a service such as Cloudfare or make sure you have the right load balancer, the AI bros will take you down.
It's not the first and it won't be the last sacrifice to the basilisk of AI, but it surely is one of the ones that pains me personally. So unnecessary, with so little gain.
It makes me sad.
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