Tom @pertho@mastodon.bsd.cafe
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This is a CPU graph of a web host that began having AI bots absolutely slam it starting at 4am UTC.

I blocked all Chrome user agents older than 120 at about 10:45 UTC.

These AI bots aren't using "nice" names like ChatGPT or AmazonBot. No, more like Chrome/116 or similar and they come from ALL OVER.

I am so tempted to put Iocaine or Nepenthes on the machine to generate Markov Chain garbage to poison the well, but I'd have to have Nginx map the older user agent string with regex. It probably could be done but this might piss off my employer. 😂

A line graph over time of a web server CPU utilisation graph. At 4am UTC it spikes to between 80 and 100% CPU then drops down to 10% or below at 10:45 am UTC when I blocked the bots.
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