Meta and Alibaba AI Crawlers Devastate Volunteer-Run LGBT History Archive
_fastcompany · reddit · 2026-08-13
AI crawlers from Meta and Alibaba have severely damaged a volunteer-run LGBT history archive website, FastCompany reports. The aggressive, high-frequency scraping nearly overwhelmed the site's servers, highlighting the negative impact of large AI firms' data collection practices on small, non-profit community resources.
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