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Incidents impliqués en tant que développeur et déployeur
Incident 10012 Rapports
LLM Scrapers Allegedly Target Multiple Open Source Projects Disrupting the FOSS Ecosystem
2025-03-17
In mid-March 2025, KDE’s GitLab infrastructure was disrupted by aggressive AI web scrapers originating from Alibaba IP ranges. These bots ignored robots.txt and spoofed browser headers, which in turn overwhelmed the site and caused outages for developers. Similar incidents affected other FOSS projects like GNOME, SourceHut, and Fedora. The scraping is tied to large language model training, and reportedly imposes real costs and delays.
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Incident 11373 Rapports
Reported False Legal Citations in South African Case Mavundla v. MEC Generated by Purported AI Tool
2024-09-20
In Mavundla v. MEC: Department of Co-Operative Government and Traditional Affairs KwaZulu-Natal, the law firm Surendra Singh and Associates, representing South African politician Philani Godfrey Mavundla, reportedly submitted false legal citations, apparently generated by AI, in filings at the Pietermaritzburg High Court. The court reportedly found that many of the cited cases did not exist in any databases, and the firm's legal team and article clerk allegedly failed to verify the references.
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