gtbarry<p>How the Free Software Foundation Battles the LLM Bots</p><p>The FSF finds its sites facing website crawlers that “ignore the robots.txt files, scan too fast, and take down sites” — and here the blog post calls out “especially” those crawlers “written by large language model companies.”</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeSoftwareFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSoftwareFoundation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FSF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FSF</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>software</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/intellectualproperty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intellectualproperty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/artificialintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>artificialintelligence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>llm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a></p><p><a href="https://thenewstack.io/how-the-free-software-foundation-battles-the-llm-bots/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thenewstack.io/how-the-free-so</span><span class="invisible">ftware-foundation-battles-the-llm-bots/</span></a></p>