Since yesterday a lot of users in Europe found their workflows failing due to Github seemingly randomly throwing HTTP/401 on git clone/git pull when interacting with public repos without authentication.
It was now confirmed by staff member that this indeed is intentional and no further steps are planned at this point.
Well given the waves of “buy book, scan, scrap” scrappers might become an acceptable version as well soon.
We’re talking about AI bots scraping GitHub in this post. Nothing to do with books.
Yes, and I was talking about the practice of some AI companies buying books in bulk to feed to their LLMs en masse which sometimes/often destroys the book in the process.
I was trying to build a bridge between those two related topics to “justify” the mistake and make it an intentional remark instead.