Gentoo takes down Bugzilla over LLM scrapers

The aggressive and unregulated scraping of public internet resources by AI companies is increasingly acting as a decentralized denial-of-service attack on volunteer and open-source infrastructure.

• –Open-source projects often lack the dedicated sysadmin resources required to implement advanced bot mitigation strategies.
• –The use of thousands of distributed IPs by scrapers makes simple IP blocking ineffective and forces drastic measures like taking services offline entirely.
• –This incident highlights a growing conflict between the data hunger of AI models and the sustainability of the platforms they scrape.
• –Infrastructure maintained by volunteers is disproportionately harmed by careless or aggressive bot behavior.