If instance admins allow AI Agents on their platform and they keep harassing us I have no other choice then to silence that instance
Again, I do not pay these massive costs each month to host robots
Let's keep the #Fediverse human shall we? 
I don't think agents will announce what they are in their request headers, and determining if texts are AI generated or human is already pretty much impossible today...

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I think if they did not work then people would not use them. Cloudflare has proven to be effictive albeit not perfect at blocking AI Traffic, they claimed to block 416 Billion AI bot requests between July and December 2025 LINK HERE

WIRED
Cloudflare Has Blocked 416 Billion AI Bot Requests Since July 1Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince claims the internet infrastructure company’s efforts to block AI crawlers are already seeing big results.

