This article was at the top of HN this morning. https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/
It was a good reminder for me to share with our community that, as many of you know, we’ve been running a program for the past ~10 or more years for supporting Free and Open Source Software products (and impactful Open Web / Public Good nonprofits) with free Fastly services.
This also includes our security tools and nearly everything else we offer. If you’re a nonprofit currently feeling the strain from AI scrapers or security risks, we have your back.
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Hello! Thanks, this is good to know, I actually had no idea. Thanks for supporting FOSS infrastructure. 
I’m wondering, does Fastly’s solution to this include users being able to decide to block AI scrapers altogether? (Within reason, of course, I realize that they can still hide under a generic user agent, different IP and whatnot.)
Hey @monospacedmagic we have some more granular breakdown on what can be blocked within this table Using system signals
Many of the bad actor AI bots don’t explicitly identify themselves as AI bots, but attempt to disguise their behavior as human. So these tools should work even though they’re not explicit AI Bot tags.