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AI companies cause most of traffic on forums

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770 points ta988 | 2 comments | 30 Dec 24 14:37 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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hombre_fatal ◴[30 Dec 24 17:58 UTC] No.42551743[source]▶
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?

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ActVen ◴[30 Dec 24 18:05 UTC] No.42551818[source]▶
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
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1. layer8 ◴[30 Dec 24 18:37 UTC] No.42552175[source]▶
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.
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2. ActVen ◴[30 Dec 24 18:54 UTC] No.42552307[source]▶
Definitely. I'm just talking about an interesting way to identify content creation on a site.