The Four Horsemen of the LLM Apocalypse — Bot Traffic Compared to 'Largest Attack Since the Morris Worm'
anarcat blog / Hacker News·low signal
A blog post likening LLM scraping bot traffic to 'the largest attack on the internet since the Morris worm,' arguing the four horsemen are computing power, water, energy, and carbon demands of AI infrastructure. The author details city-sized data centers being built at high speed, consuming fresh water and energy at unprecedented scale. While only 36 points on HN, the post represents growing infrastructure-operator backlash as they bear the cost of AI's resource appetite firsthand.