How the Free Software Foundation Battles the LLM Bots

A July 2 blog post by senior systems administrator Ian Kelling points out that the infrastructure for the Free Software Foundation “has been under attack since August 2024.”

“Nothing has changed since the article,” FSF sysadmin Michael McMahon told The New Stack on Tuesday. “We are still dealing with all of these issues.”

The organization has with has just two full-time tech team employees plus a handful of “dedicated volunteers” to deal with the issue.

And the FSF’s July post links to a report from LibreNews noting similar…