Anthropic is scraping websites so fast it's causing problems

Anthropic's aggressive scraping behavior with Claude LLM has rattled the online community. Despite websites utilizing robots.txt to safeguard against such crawling, the AI firm's bot has garnered negative attention from sites like Ifixit.com and Freelancer for excessive traffic and devops resource constraints.

• Anthropic uses ClaudeBot for data scraping.
• Ifixit.com reported a million hits in a day.
• Freelancer recorded 3.5 million hits in 4 hours.
• ClaudeBot ignores robots.txt guidelines.
• Anthropic’s roots trace back to OpenAI.