LLM and AI companies seem to all be in a race to breathe the last breath of air in every room they stumble into. This practice started with larger websites, ones that already had protection from malicious usage like denial-of-service and abuse in the form of services like Cloudflare or Fastly. But the list of targets has been getting longer. At this point we're seeing LLM and AI scrapers targeting small project forges like the GNOME GitLab server. How long until scrapers start hammering Mastodon...