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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦2d ago

"They Drank Our Milkshakes"

A post I've written about AI scraping swarms and how they negatively impact hobby developers such as myself.

https://whateverthing.com/blog/2026/03/23/they-drank-our-milkshakes/

They Drank Our Milkshakes | whateverthing.com by Kevin Boyd — Portfolio and Technology Blog

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Alerta! Alerta!

@kboyd I'm asking myself whether we can create a worldwide IP-list of AI scrapers that we can then use to feed them some obscure content (Like ZIP-Bombs or pure LoremIpsum or All of Isaak Asimovs novels)...