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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. lizknope ◴[02 Jan 25 16:12 UTC] No.42575688[source]▶
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

I swear that 90% of the posts I see on some subreddits are bots. They just go through the most popular posts of the last year and repost for upvotes. I'm looked at the post history and comments of some of them and found a bunch of accounts where the only comments are from the same 4 accounts and they all just comment and upvote each other with 1 line comments. It's clearly all bots but reddit doesn't care as it looks like more activity and they can charge advertisers more to advertise to bots I guess.