[Leica] LUG Gallery being swamped by AI bots

[Don Dory]

The AI is feeding in the veldt.  More data however acquired adds something:
although random images on an obscure server means that Facebook, Instagram,
and all the others have been vacuumed up already.  Life in the 21st.

On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 7:21 AM Brian Reid <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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Don
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