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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: 0.217s | source
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lumb63 ◴[31 Dec 24 23:06 UTC] No.42562540[source]▶
This is another instance of “privatized profits, socialized losses”. Trillions of dollars of market cap has been created with the AI bubble, mostly using data taken from public sites without permission, at cost to the entity hosting the website.
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1. ipnon ◴[01 Jan 25 03:57 UTC] No.42563847[source]▶
The AI ecosystem and its interactions with the web are pathological like a computer virus, but the mechanism of action isn't quite the same. I propose the term "computer algae." It better encapsulates the manner in which the AI scrapers pollute the entire water pool of the web.