AI company crawlers consume hundreds of GB of site bandwidth without consent or warning
Meta's AI crawler made 7.9 million requests to a site in 30 days consuming 900GB of bandwidth before the owner noticed. Website owners have no effective mechanism to detect, block, or bill for aggressive AI crawler traffic.
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