Hello .. this is interesting .. I have not posted in a while, but the last two of my post were "read" in the mid-hundreds? When I was posting regularly I got less than that (under a hundred reads within the few days of posting) - I thought I had maybe 50 readers from my couple of hundred subscribers. So I am thinking these reads are probably AI Bot Crawlers surfing the Internet and Blog-Sphere, scooping up everything and everything for Gen AI Chatbot Models!
Thoughts anyone?
Thanks for the comments (see in comments tab) I am in agreement with everybody here. The Bots are doing it. Interestingly this post only generated a quarter of the hits the one either side did. Perhaps it was because of the lack of images or are the AI Bots "dissing me"?
And what is the discussion at work this morning: AI Bot Driven Web Crawler activity! It sucks! Two webinars already on the subject. I think you will see some industry kickback soon, as it is useless web traffic. They are generating is obscene amounts of hits - and remember you have to burn power for those those back-end servers. So much for watching your C02 footprint "Big Tech"! "Permission based only" crawlers [maybe even charging the Bots] is probably coming next, along with fines for non-compliance! Money talks!
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Geordie -
AI bot crawlers, I suspect. My last posting stands at over 7000 'hits' - maybe 4 times the previous maximum in my blogspot. To begin with, it seemed pretty gratifying, supposing that I might have caught the interest of a new readership. But then the thing got ridiculous. The purpose of this sort of nonsense is beyond me! I think one could explain it to me in words of one syllable or less, and it would still pass my comprehension.
Cheers,
Ion
Over the past week my hit counter has been recording a huge increase in hits … and the stats indicate that most of them appear to originate in the US, but I suspect that they may actually from elsewhere.
All the best,
Bob
Thanks Gents, nice to know I am just part of a pattern, teh pattern of AI augmented automated madness - and I promised not to write anything more about teh misuse of AI as it infuriates me. Back to teh wargaming. Glad to see you both active and posting!
I too have seen my reads go up by a factor of five or more. I don't particularly care, as it isn't really any different from search engine crawlers of yore. I do wonder how useful all this content is for training the automated text and image producers currently labelled as "AI", particularly as an increasing chunk was generated by "AI" in the first place.
I am the same as above. My daily hit rate is 5 to 10 times what it is used to be for recent posts. It doesn't worry me much that is is likely bots. Years ago I used Google analytics to check my blog and I think about 80% of the hits back then were actually bots anyway!
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