It seems like there's a new reason to be frustrated at AI almost every day, a reason that bubbles up through the primordial soup of festering unconsciousness and into the light of anger. There's the effect on the economy, job thievery, copyrighted content thievery, and the simple fact that it's just not right that lifeless neural networks should be able to convince anyone they're conscious. And now, there's another reason to be mad at the ethereal AI buggers: they're clogging up server bandwidth without permission.
Yes, I was aware that some companies scrape websites for content to train their AI models, and yes, I was aware that they sometimes do this without a website's permission. But I didn't consider the impact this might have on the servers running these websites. CEO of iFixit, Kyle Wiens, is here to let all of us know that this does, in fact, occur, as they ask AI company Anthropic: "Do you really need to hit our servers a million times in 24 hours?"
