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AI companies cause most of traffic on forums

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770 points ta988 | 1 comments | 30 Dec 24 14:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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ksec ◴[30 Dec 24 17:50 UTC] No.42551642[source]▶
On a side note. CGTalk ( One of the largest forum for 3D / VFX Content creation ) was shut down earlier this year citing resources reasons. And for whatever reason they didn't allow anyone to take a copy of the data, run the forum. They could have sold that Data to OpenAI.

I wonder how many Forums shut down due to traffics like this? Most of the reason why forums moved to Slack, Discord etc was that they no longer have to host or operate any server.

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1. treprinum ◴[01 Jan 25 00:54 UTC] No.42563068[source]▶
That's a pity! CGTalk was the site where I first learned about Cg from Nvidia that later morphed into CUDA so unbeknownst to them, CGTalk was at the forefront of the AI by popularizing it.