# Git.sr.ht is being disrupted by aggressive LLM crawlers

> Source: <https://status.sr.ht/>
> Published: 2026-08-17 09:01:40+00:00

**SourceHut disrupted by LLM crawlers →**

**git.sr.ht is being disrupted by aggressive LLM crawlers**.

An aggressive botnet is scraping git.sr.ht to obtain data to train large language models. It has been able to circumvent the defenses we ordinarily deploy to mitigate these botnets, and as a consequence git.sr.ht is unstable. We have taken some aggressive measures to ensure some service remains available, but for the time being we have disabled a large number of routes for the web service to keep the load managable, which will cause…