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this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2025
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Sometimes we have those little epiphanies in the shower.. sometimes they come from other places. This is a home for those epiphanies.
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AI bot traffic.
Yeah I've never been there. I've been to others, but I've never been there.
Is that a song? It feels quite close to the song.
Kinda got that "I would do anything for love but I won't do that" from Meatloaf vibe.
Side note; it really sucks watching him become a hateful bigot considering his audience is like 80% lbgtqia peeps
And does that AI bot traffic not hit all the other sites too? Not trying to be a dick. Occams razer. Sometimes it's not a conspiracy and things really are as they seem.
Using bots to drive up the traffic of your site is stupidly common, has been a thing even before LLMs, and does not require driving up traffic to every site on the internet. 🤦♂️
Very true but if you look at the top 10 sites online I bet they're all propping up their traffic metrics with bots which means to some extent it becomes a moot point. Anecdotally in the real world I see the use of AI very prevalent which lends to the fact that it is widespread and universally adopted despite what the bubble here says.
pfft.🤭 You are aware Colleges are sponsoring the bubble too, right?