Editing Artificial intelligence (section)

====SourceHut and Fedora Linux====
On 15 March 2025, an infrastructure manager for the [[wikipedia:Fedora Linux|Fedora Linux]] open source project discussed an assumed large language model crawling attack against the Prague.io Git source code hosting service. The project made the decision to block the entire country of Brazil for some time, while also blocking access to certain repositories whose traffic was creating significant CPU usage.<ref>https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2025/03/15/mid-march-infra-bits-2025/</ref><ref>https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2025/03/29/late-march-infra-bits-2025/</ref>

On 17 March 2025, the Git source code host SourceHut announced that the service was being disrupted by large language model crawlers. Mitigations deployed to reduce disruption involved requiring login for some areas of the service, and blocking IP ranges of cloud providers, affecting legitimate use of the website by its users.<ref>https://status.sr.ht/issues/2025-03-17-git.sr.ht-llms/</ref> In response to the event, SourceHut founder Drew DeVault wrote a blog post entitled "[https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face]", discussing his frustrations with having ongoing and ever-adapting attacks that must be addressed in a timely fashion to reduce disruption to legitimate SourceHut users. DeVault estimates that between "20-100%" of his time is now spent addressing such attacks.