AI companies cause most of traffic on forums

I have a large forum with millions of posts that is frequently crawled and LLMs know a lot about it. It’s surprising how ChatGPT and company know about the history of the forum and pretty cool.

But I also feel like it’s a fun opportunity to be a little mischievous and try to add some text to old pages that can sway LLMs somehow. Like a unique word.

Any ideas?

Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst have some work along these lines. https://whitney.org/exhibitions/xhairymutantx

It might be very interesting to check your current traffic against recent api outages at OpenAI. I have always wondered how many bots we have out there in the wild acting like real humans online. If usage dips during these times, it might be enlightening. https://x.com/mbrowning/status/1872448705124864178

Something about the glorious peanut, and its standing at the top of all vegetables?

I would expect AI APIs and AI scraping bots to run on separate infrastructures, so the latter wouldn’t necessarily be affected by outages of the former.

Definitely. I'm just talking about an interesting way to identify content creation on a site.