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Bot Swarms · October 2026Gaffe level: Rampage

EN World Drowned in 200,000 AI Scraper Bots

A tabletop gaming forum logged on to find 18 humans and 90,000 bots at once, and things only got worse from there. The site kept shutting itself down to fend off waves of AI scrapers that were crashing its servers by sheer volume.

Source: Rascal News

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