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2026-05-22 00:17:48
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Aggressive AI Scrapers Are Raising the Cost of Running Public Wikis
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Aggressive AI Scrapers Are Raising the Cost of Running Public Wikis

Public knowledge sites now face crawler load that can exceed human traffic by 10x. Bot filtering is becoming a real infra feature, not an optional ops tweak.

[ KEY POINTS ]
  1. AI scraper traffic can consume about 10x more compute than all human activity if left unchecked, turning open content into a hosting-cost risk.
  2. Blocking known agents like GPTBot is no longer enough; crawlers mimic modern Chrome headers and avoid simple User-Agent filters.
  3. Residential proxy rotation reaching 1M IPs per day breaks naive IP bans, creating demand for behavior-based bot defense and cache-first architectures.
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