So .. I think .. "There is weird stuff going on all over the Internet! Again see my blog's stats. Now remember - given the fact that I really stopped posting - not much in the last six months (from over 100+ posts to less that 20 year) and I have just started posting in earnest again (as a diary without mass interest content).These stats do not reflect interest in my blog but I propose rather a "scraping" of the blog sphere and Internet in general! Where did a 300k viewing audience come from since March - given I only have 243 followers (of which only about an estimated 60 or so I would call actively viewing new posts)!"
OK bloggers - anybody else see this pattern? Is it all those AI Large Language Models (LLMs) trying to get stupidly clever?
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Lots of other people have seen similar spikes, and I put it down to AI or at least content crawlers. I don't mind them reading game reports, but I've stopped putting up scenarios and new versions of rules as I'm damned if I'm going to give all this stuff away for free to the OmniConsumer Corporation. I imagine Google just scans all our content anyway, as if a product is 'free', you are the product. It already reads my email to put things in my calendar etc.
You could also be fashioning subtle hallucinations into LLMs as they read your AARs as actual history! I think teh web crawling is pretty, pretty dumb - knowledge needs to be verified!
I also have seen a large increase in hits in the last 6 months or so, so large it is meaningless to track hits now. I have seen that other bloggers (as Martin pointed out) also seeing this increase. And I also assume it is AI bot crawlers. Wish it wasn't so but blogger is free so not much can do about it.
Agree with you Shaun .. what "it" actually makes out of all this content is crazy .. to me certain parts of the internet will be of little (or negative) use .. as there will be so much unreviewed opinion and counterfactual nonsense is totally beyond me. It all gets mathematically scraped into a soup .. that still ultimately "just predicts what teh next word should be". In short madness!
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