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I'm curious if this was some kind of DDOS, or if someone was trying to use it to train AI and was pulling everything to make a local copy
About the only way to ensure you're not training AI on bots, is to use "old internet" when bots were more obvious
This is going to become a valued commodity like pre-atomic low background steel, isn't it?
And it's mostly all in one place...
I never realized how valuable that data was