AI Incident Database - Incident 1001
Source evidence cited by public records. This page shows where the source is used, its trust tier, and when it was last checked in the seed.
Records using this source
- generative-ai-developers
entity | 30 June 2026 | 70%
generative-ai-developers - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- alibaba
entity | 4 Oct 2025 | 70%
alibaba - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- curl
entity | 6 Apr 2025 | 70%
curl - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- diaspora
entity | 6 Apr 2025 | 70%
diaspora - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- fedora
entity | 6 Apr 2025 | 70%
fedora - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- foss-projects-and-communities
entity | 6 Apr 2025 | 70%
foss-projects-and-communities - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- gnome
entity | 6 Apr 2025 | 70%
gnome - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- inkscape
entity | 6 Apr 2025 | 70%
inkscape - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- kde
entity | 6 Apr 2025 | 70%
kde - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- linux-weekly-news
entity | 6 Apr 2025 | 70%
linux-weekly-news - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- read-the-docs
entity | 6 Apr 2025 | 70%
read-the-docs - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- sourcehut
entity | 6 Apr 2025 | 70%
sourcehut - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- sysadmins
entity | 6 Apr 2025 | 70%
sysadmins - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- LLM Scrapers Allegedly Target Multiple Open Source Projects Disrupting the FOSS Ecosystem
event | 6 Apr 2025 | 82%
In mid-March 2025, KDE's GitLab infrastructure was reportedly disrupted by aggressive AI web scrapers originating from Alibaba IP ranges. These bots allegedly ignored robots.txt and spoofed browser headers, which in turn purportedly overwhelmed the site and caused outages for developers. Similar incidents reportedly affected other FOSS projects like GNOME, SourceHut, and Fedora. The scraping is allegedly tied to large language model training, and reportedly imposes real cost…