LLM Bots vs Techrights
Slows things down a bit
I wish 1.8 million requests per day came from EPO staff and applicants (firms or people who make patent applications), but instead this week we're getting loads of requests from bots, which in turn slows down the site.
Like stated this morning (early hours of the day), I can only imagine those are LLM-centric bots, not search engines. It's not so simple to block these without false positives, but for now we need to co-exist with them. See the new article "How the Free Software Foundation Battles the LLM Bots" (from a typically FSF-hostile site funded by Microsoft). █