AI companies cause most of traffic on forums

They're the ones serving the expensive traffic. Wut if people were to form a volunteer bot net to waste their GPU resources in a similar fashion, just sending tons of pointless queries per day like "write me a 1000 word essay that ...". Could even form a non-profit around it and call it research.

That sounds like a good way to waste enormous amounts of energy that's already being expended by legitimate LLM users.