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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: 0s | source
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cs702 ◴[30 Dec 24 18:10 UTC] No.42551876[source]▶
AI companies go on forums to scrape content for training models, which are surreptitiously used to generate content posted on forums, from which AI companies scrape content to train models, which are surreptitiously used to generate content posted on forums... It's a lot of traffic, and a lot of new content, most of which seems to add no value. Sigh.
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1. misswaterfairy ◴[01 Jan 25 18:45 UTC] No.42568106[source]▶
One hopes that this will eventually burst the AI bubble.