[Leica] LUG Gallery being swamped by AI bots

[Nathan Wajsman]

Just out of curiosity, how do you detect that?

Cheers,
Nathan

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> On 28 Jul 2025, at 14:35, John McMaster via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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> I have had my website sucked in to several Ais ☹
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> 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:
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> 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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