A developer at MVP studio Asper Brothers analyzed three cases of AI agents misbehaving on the web: OpenAI research agents that made roughly 13,000 edits on German UseMod wikis in a week while leaving …
Kernel.org administrator Konstantin Ryabitsev reported that AI crawlers consumed 14-16 of 90 CPU cores across five servers, continuously rendering Git commit pages for scrapers despite repositories be…
Linux kernel developer Konstantin Ryabitsev said that coping with AI-generated 'slop' from LLM bots has become so expensive that even Linux infrastructure struggles, noting that kernel.org and related…
The Linux Foundation's Konstantin Ryabitsev reported that AI-powered web scrapers are consuming 14-16 of git.kernel.org's 90 CPU cores, roughly 20% of capacity, by repeatedly rendering commit pages in…
Kernel.org, the host of the Linux kernel source code, reports that AI crawlers now consume about 20% of its total CPU power, with git.kernel.org receiving roughly 6 million daily requests for commit p…
Konstantin Ryabitsev reports that AI crawlers now dominate traffic to the Linux kernel repositories at git.kernel.org, with only about 2% of the roughly 6 million daily requests being legitimate. Of t…
Git.kernel.org, the primary host for Linux kernel source code, is spending more CPU cycles rendering commits for AI crawlers than on all other legitimate access combined, including git clones, accordi…