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Subject: [Leica] LUG Gallery being swamped by AI bots
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 21:01:12 +0200
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Just out of curiosity, how do you detect that?

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
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> On 28 Jul 2025, at 14:35, John McMaster via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> I have had my website sucked in to several Ais ?
> 
> ?On 28/07/2025, 13:21, "LUG on behalf of Brian Reid" 
> <lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.co.uk at leica-users.org <mailto:mcmaster.co.uk 
> at leica-users.org> on behalf of reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us <mailto:reid 
> at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us>> wrote:
> 
> 
> Some AI system that I cannot identify has been overloading the LUG 
> Gallery for the last couple of days. It appears from the logs that it is 
> trying to extract every photo. The gallery software is too primitive to 
> have any means of blocking it; I don?t see any choice but to let it 
> finish.
> 
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