OpenAI's crawler just found our family server / cloud services and immediately proceeded to crash Nextcloud within minutes. Fucking fantastic.

Is there some nice, up-to-date write-up on the different tools to protect yourself against this?
#AI #AISlop #AttackOfTheMachines #selfHosting

@Natanox it/they haven't got round to mine yet but I too will be interested to see what answers there are, as it's only a matter of time. My family/friends Nextcloud gets the top 'A+' security rating from the Nextcloud scanner thing web page but beyond that what to do I don't know either.

@nigelharpur I learned today that the robots.txt that comes with a default Nextcloud install (at least in a docker) is perfectly basic. I guess a basic measure would be to replace that one with a robots.txt that includes all the anti-AI stuff telling OpenAI and others to screw off.

Other than that most answers mentioned Anubis and its alternatives as well as poisoning tools like iocaine.