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The AI botnets cannot be stopped.
I am constantly getting scrape attempts for avatar-image-JPEG URLs that have not existed on my blog since a restructuring in 2022. They come in bursts of about a 100 per minute, each from a different IP address, and in random order.
I thought: enough is enough, I need to figure out what clown service these are coming from and start blocking whole networks.
Nope, they're almost all from cable modems, not from hosting facilities:
https://jwz.org/b/yk7g
