[Leica] LUG Gallery being swamped by AI bots

[Douglas Barry]

Yes, the whole thing is rather creepy. The robber baronetcy is in the 
ascendancy.  Lord knows what is going on in our phones, thanks to musk, 
his ilk, and those kilometres of  updated conditions in small print we 
seem to ingest daily.

I have been busy with other matters, so haven't got around to the LUG 
for a while. Went to post a photo on the gallery, but it just went into 
a whirl. Now I'm wondering can these AI bots identify and piggy back on 
log ins?

With apologies to Santa Claus - Aaye Eye is comin' to town

He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake!

You better watch out!
You better not cry
Better not pout
I'm telling you why
Aaye Eye is comin' to town

Douglas

On 28/07/2025 20:10, Brian Reid wrote:
> Those addresses 20.171.207.* are all owned by Microsoft.
>
> On 2025-07-28 12:07, John McMaster via LUG wrote:
>> Web logs, +1GB of transfer from a similar range of IP addresses.
>>
>> Top 30 of 4346 Total Sites
>> #    Hits    Files    kB F    Visits    Hostname
>> 1    382727    35.58%    191603    34.69%    293133    10.41% 2644    
>> 8.92%    20.171.207.90
>> 2    90236    8.39%    45556    8.25%    106515    3.78% 638    
>> 2.15%    20.171.207.110
>> 3    72181    6.71%    37981    6.88%    454871    16.15% 485    
>> 1.64%    20.171.207.118
>> 4    71925    6.69%    36094    6.53%    75167    2.67% 488    
>> 1.65%    20.171.207.251
>> 5    50956    4.74%    25438    4.60%    33603    1.19% 355    
>> 1.20%    20.171.207.52
>> 6    45118    4.19%    22376    4.05%    29615    1.05% 310    
>> 1.05%    20.171.207.160
>> 7    37043    3.44%    18490    3.35%    24426    0.87% 247    
>> 0.83%    20.171.207.72
>> 8    32144    2.99%    16065    2.91%    21214    0.75% 232    
>> 0.78%    20.171.207.108
>> 9    27972    2.60%    13980    2.53%    21018    0.75% 193    
>> 0.65%    20.171.207.94
>> 10    27062    2.52%    13430    2.43%    33955    1.21% 189    
>> 0.64%    20.171.207.217
>> 11    17982    1.67%    8991    1.63%    11871    0.42% 118    
>> 0.40%    20.171.207.21
>> 12    17556    1.63%    8777    1.59%    11602    0.41% 129    
>> 0.44%    20.171.207.65
>> 13    15660    1.46%    7830    1.42%    10369    0.37% 106    
>> 0.36%    20.171.207.132
>> 14    12686    1.18%    6343    1.15%    8400    0.30%    94 0.32%    
>> 20.171.207.87
>> 15    11234    1.04%    7140    1.29%    55942    1.99%    43 
>> 0.15%    20.171.207.244
>> 16    10638    0.99%    5319    0.96%    7044    0.25%    70 0.24%    
>> 20.171.207.20
>> 17    4808    0.45%    2403    0.44%    3183    0.11%    32 0.11%    
>> 20.171.207.248
>> 18    4036    0.38%    2018    0.37%    2664    0.09%    30 0.10%    
>> 20.171.207.176
>> 19    3910    0.36%    1955    0.35%    2589    0.09%    8 0.03%    
>> 20.171.207.63
>> 20    3672    0.34%    1836    0.33%    2424    0.09%    26 0.09%    
>> 20.171.207.6
>>
>> 20.171.207.0/24 is a Microsoft block of IPs.......
>>
>> john
>>
>> On 28/07/2025, 20:01, "LUG on behalf of Nathan Wajsman via LUG"
>> <lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.co.uk at leica-users.org on behalf of
>> lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
>>
>>     Just out of curiosity, how do you detect that?
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>     Nathan
>>
>>     Nathan Wajsman
>> photo at frozenlight.eu
>>
>> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
>> http://www.greatpix.eu
>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>>     @nwajsman.bsky.social
>>
>>     Слава Україні! Героям слава!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     > 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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