All About Berlin
A guide website about living in Berlin that the author relies on as his livelihood. AI systems train on its content and divert its audience, and traffic is down 80-85% compared with the same month pre-LLMs. Work in the comment focuses on cutting operating costs to the bare minimum: shutting down one service, replacing a VPS with Cloudflare Workers, trimming SaaS subscriptions, and self-hosting what he can.
What it addresses
AI systems train on the website's content and use it to deny the author an audience; traffic is down 80-85% from the same month pre-LLMs, making the livelihood-sustaining site's survival doubtful.
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All About Berlin
A guide website about living in Berlin that the author relies on as his livelihood. AI systems train on its content and divert its audience, and traffic is down 80-85% compared with the same month pre-LLMs. Work in the comment focuses on cutting operating costs to the bare minimum: shutting down one service, replacing a VPS with Cloudflare Workers, trimming SaaS subscriptions, and self-hosting what he can.
Problem: AI systems train on the website's content and use it to deny the author an audience; traffic is down 80-85% from the same month pre-LLMs, making the livelihood-sustaining site's survival doubtful.
Posted by @nicbou · Original comment ↗
“AI is still killing the website I live from[0], training its AI on my work and using it to deny me an audience. Traffic is down 80-85% from the same month pre-LLMs. So I'm cutting operating costs to the bare minimum. Today I shut down one service and replaced a VPS with Cloudflare Workers. I'm also trimming my SaaS subscriptions and self-hosting what I can.”