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How OpenAI’s bot crushed this seven-person company’s website ‘like a DDoS attack’
OpenAI was sending “tens of thousands” of server requests trying to download Triplegangers' entire site which hosts hundreds of thousands of photos.
It sells the 3D object files, as well as photos – everything from hands to hair, skin, and full bodies – to 3D artists, video game makers, anyone who needs to digitally recreate authentic human characteristics. Tomchuk’s team, based in Ukraine but also licensed in the U.S. out of Tampa, Florida, has a terms of service page on its site that forbids bots from taking its images without permission. “It’s scary because there seems to be a loophole that these companies are using to crawl data by saying “you can opt out if you update your robot.txt with our tags,” says Tomchuk, but that puts the onus on the business owner to understand how to block them.
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